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