Philip Guston Quotes on pain

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

By: Philip Guston

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I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over... view

By: Philip Guston

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In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is.. view

By: Philip Guston

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Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe... view

By: Philip Guston

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

By: Philip Guston

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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... view

By: Philip Guston

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I don't know what a painting is.. view

By: Philip Guston

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To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing... view

By: Philip Guston

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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 into positions that feel destined... view

By: Philip Guston

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Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding.. view

By: Philip Guston

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