#paint

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. ↗

— Morris Graves

#external #external world #eye #i #inner

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. ↗

— Graham Greene

#escape #fear #form #how #human

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#art school #brooklyn #call #comics #east

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. ↗

— George Grosz

#cult #genius #greater #individuality #itself

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century. ↗

— John Guare

#any #art #century #does #expensive

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

— Philip Guston

#come #delirium #i #i am #into

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

— Philip Guston

#magic #painting #piece #see #you

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

— Philip Guston

#gong #inspired #like #look #painting

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. ↗

— Philip Guston

#am #arbitrary #arrives #destined #falls

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. ↗

— Philip Guston

#picturing #possessing #rather #than