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Paint Quotes by Philip Guston
- Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls…
- In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets…
- To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
- No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can only hope that…
- 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…
- To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.
- Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just…
- Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms…
- There comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you have all experienced…
- I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You…
- 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…
- I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations,…
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