Philip guston
To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
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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,...
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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.
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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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I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.
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Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.
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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...
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The hand, the hand, The hand, the hand, The hand, the hand, Thoughts of another finger Typing down into a cellar The line, the line The line, the line The line, the line The line, the line The line,...
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