Canvas Preparation Quotes

I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.

I started painting when I was in high school.

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.

I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to.

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

I hate painting.

I have a lot of problems with Western European easel painting.

If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas.

I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.

I started out with projected-light works and working indoors, but I'd prepare the walls - by sanding, etcetera - the way you'd prepare a canvas for painting.

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

Painting is a hobby for me.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

When you go back to the days when I was studying how to paint, some of the things that excited me most was to go into the Huntington Library and Gardens and to see the amazing pictures of the landed gentry.

I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.

I found I have to stay painting.

Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils.