Anything Quote by Philip Guston

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;…

— Philip Guston

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…

— Philip Guston

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become…

— Robert Motherwell

I fell in love with painting. Painting allows me to see things as I want to and not necessarily as they are, it's an…

— Pittacus Lore

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to…

— Philip Guston

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Painting, to me, is a unique experience. Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning. After brainstorming feelings and…

— Fernando Araujo Perdomo

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through…

— Paul McCartney

The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because every painting…

— James Elkins

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

— Paul Cezanne

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

— J. E. H. MacDonald

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge