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Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some kind of jump or leap, where , the painting is always saying, 'What do you want from me? I can only be a painting.' You have to go from part to part, but you shouldn't see yourself go from part to part, that's the whole point.

Philip Guston's Popular Quotes

To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they…

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The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

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

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There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

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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.

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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 n…

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

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

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It is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each …

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