Philip Guston Quotes & Sayings

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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; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

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

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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.

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Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so 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.

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