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More than a process, painting is being possessed.

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More than a process, painting is being possessed.

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To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Philip Guston Painter

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

Philip Guston Painter

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

Philip Guston Painter

If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it?

Philip Guston Painter

When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.

Faith Ringgold Artist

I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.

Kazimir Malevich Painter

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

Alex Katz Artist

God, I've frozen my ass off painting snow scenes!

Andrew Wyeth Visual Artist

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Andy Rooney Writer

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

Andy Warhol Artist

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