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Artist Quotes by Philip Guston
- If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it?
- Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who…
- We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.
- Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot…
- The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.
- Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing... It's a funny thing, what…
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- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
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- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu