Best quotes by Philip Guston on Painting

Checkout quotes by Philip Guston on Painting

• ‟ Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

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• ‟ The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.

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• ‟ Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

  - Philip Guston
  

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

  - 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, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

  - 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 sets off even the desire to paint?

  - Philip Guston