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

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

Philip Guston
Magic, Pieces, Painting
Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.278, Univ of California Press

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

Philip Guston
Excellence, Looks, Painting

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

Philip Guston
Painting, Argument, Begin Again
Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.53, Univ of California Press

There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.

Philip Guston
Mysterious, Painting

More than a process, painting is being possessed.

Philip Guston
Painting, Process, Possessed

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
Color, Desire, Painting
Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.278, Univ of California Press

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.

Philip Guston
Men, Museums, Painting
"Abstract Expressionism". Book by David Anfam, p. 207, 1990.

I'm not interested in painting; I'm not interested in making a picture. Then what the hell am I interested in? I must be interested in this process.

Philip Guston
Painting, Hell, Process
Kim Sichel, Philip Guston (1994). “Philip Guston, 1975-1980: Private and Public Battles”, University of Washington Press

What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain things can happen, unaccountably the unknown and free must appear.

Philip Guston
Painting, States, Certain
Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.10, Univ of California Press

Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.

Philip Guston
Light, Painting, Now And Then
Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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