canvas quotes

The canvas was always saying no to me.

- Romare Bearden
Of early attempts to perfect his medium. Recalled on his death in the Washington Post,14 Mar1988.

La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter.

-Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  Physiologie du gou"  t, pt.1, ch.6, section 34 (translated by Anne Drayton,1970).

To create is first of all to destroy†there is and can be no such thing as authentic art until the bons trucs (whereby we are taught to see and imitate on canvas and in stone and by words this so-called world) are entirely and

- e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings cummings

All my life I've beenworking on the workevery canvas a sentence or paragraph of it. Each picture is onlyan approximation of what I want.

- Robert Motherwell
Recalled on his death,16  Jul1991.

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to actrather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or 'express'an object, actual or imagined.What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

- Harold Rosenberg
  'TheAmerican Action Painters', in Art News, no.51, Dec.

Dal | 's importance for the Surrealists at that time, and for art historians now, is that he found a way to put Freud on canvas.

- Sanford Schwartz
  In the New Republic,17 Oct.

Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam.

-Tennyson
  'Merlin andThe Gleam', stanza 9, l.126^31.