Artist Quote by Philip Guston

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,…

— Philip Guston

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

— Philip Guston

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

— Julian Schnabel

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light)…

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

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

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

“The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision by rendering…

— Marcel Paquet

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

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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 stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein