Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert paint. Then I look back at the canvas, and it's not inert - it's active, moving and living.
To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they… - Philip Guston
To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they…
- Philip Guston
The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance. - Philip Guston
The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.
Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing. - Philip Guston
Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. - Philip Guston
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
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
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.
There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand. - Philip Guston
There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.
We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish. - Philip Guston
We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.
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… - Philip Guston
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…
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 … - Philip Guston
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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