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

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This quote is written / told by Philip Guston between July 27, 1913 and June 7, 1980. He/she was a famous Artist from USA. The author also have 9 other quotes.

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"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour"

"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality"

"You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame"

"I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love"

John Dyer, Artist

"I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza"

"Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see"

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary"

"I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait"

"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture"

"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting"