Artist Quote by Philip Guston Download Open image “Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.” — Philip Guston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Illusion Illusion Piece Magic Painting Painting Illusion Piece Magic Pieces
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 Copy Share Image
I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in… — Ivan Eyre Copy Share Image
I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of… — William Scott Copy Share Image
The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent.… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I go to the studio everyday because one day I may go and the Angel will be there. What if I don't go and… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
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… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can only hope… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom.… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
