Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can only hope that you are alert - ready - to see. What joy it is for paint to become a thing - a being. Believe in this miracle - it is your only hope. To will this transformation is not possible. Only a slow maturation can prepare the hand and eye to become quicker than ever. Ideas about art don't matter. They collapse anyway in front of the painting.

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

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

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

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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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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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