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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. (Philip Guston Quotes)
Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light (Philip Guston Quotes)
Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing (Philip Guston Quotes)
To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing (Philip Guston Quotes)
More than a process, painting is being possessed (Philip Guston Quotes)
There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover (Philip Guston Quotes)
Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up where it was in the first place. But at the end it feels different, and it had to make the voyage. I am a moralist and cannot accept what has not been paid for, or a form that has not been lived through (Philip Guston Quotes)
If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it? (Philip Guston Quotes)
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 Quotes)
There comes a point when the paint doesn’t feel like paint. I don’t know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you have all experienced it... What counts is that the paint should really disappear, otherwise it’s craft (Philip Guston Quotes)
Do I really believe that? I make a mark, a few strokes, I argue with myself, not do I like or not, but is it true or not? Is that what I mean, is that what I want? (Philip Guston Quotes)
That’s what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some kind of rhythm (Philip Guston Quotes)
The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance (Philip Guston Quotes)
I feel more as if I’m shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I’ve always wanted to get to that state. Like a blind man in a dark room had some clay, what would he make? I end up with 2 or 3 forms on a canvas, but it gets very physical for me (Philip Guston Quotes)
To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must especially be removed to clear the way for something else (Philip Guston Quotes)
Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another... where their thinking doesn’t precede their doing... It’s a funny thing, what I really hate yet I have to go through with it, is the preparation (Philip Guston Quotes)
I don’t know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere (Philip Guston Quotes)
It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw, without the distractions of color and mass. Yet it is an old ambition to make drawing and painting one (Philip Guston Quotes)
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don’t know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere (Philip Guston Quotes)
I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over (Philip Guston Quotes)
I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom. It is a loss from which we suffer, and this pathos motivates modern painting and poetry at its heart (Philip Guston Quotes)
There’s some mysterious process at work here, which I don’t even want to understand (Philip Guston Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see (Philip Guston Quotes)
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again (Philip Guston Quotes)
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see (Philip Guston Quotes)
Look at any inspired painting. It’s like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation (Philip Guston Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Philip Guston Quotes)