Canvas Work Quotes

I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.

Generally, when I tell people I'm a painter, they ask me if I have a card: 'Yes, we'd like this room in this color.' I still might get cards that say 'Mark Bradford. Painter.'

I've been painting since I was a kid.

I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.

Why sit on your butt watching 'Jersey Shore' when you can learn to paint a beautiful picture?

I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

All I try to do is put as many colors as I can on the canvas every night.

I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases.

My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it.

I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.

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.

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

I advance all of my canvas at one time.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.