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> [Do I really believe that? I make a mark, a few strokes, I argue with myself, not do I like or not, but is it true or not? Is that what I mean, is that what I want?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guston/do-i-really-believe-that-i-make-a-mark-a-few-strokes-i-argue-with/)

[Philip Guston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guston/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guston/that-s-what-i-mean-by-something-grips-in-a-canvas-the-moment-that/)

[Philip Guston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guston/)

> [Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guston/then-you-learn-about-composition-you-learn-about-old-masters-you-form/)

[Philip Guston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guston/)

> [I go to the studio everyday because one day I may go and the Angel will be there. What if I don't go and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guston/i-go-to-the-studio-everyday-because-one-day-i-may-go-and-the-angel/)

[Philip Guston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guston/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guston/sometimes-i-scrape-off-a-lot-you-have-on-the-floor-like-cow-dung-in/)

[Philip Guston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guston/)

> [Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guston/painting-seems-like-impossibility-with-only-a-sign-now-and-then-of/)

[Philip Guston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guston/)

> [Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guston/many-works-of-the-past-complete-what-they-announce-they-are-going-to/)

[Philip Guston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guston/)

> [Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guston/probably-the-most-potent-desire-for-a-painter-an-image-maker-is-to/)

[Philip Guston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guston/)

> [No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can only hope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guston/no-good-to-paint-in-the-head-what-happens-is-what-happens-when-you/)

[Philip Guston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guston/)

> [We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guston/we-are-image-makers-and-image-ridden-we-work-until-we-vanish/)

[Philip Guston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guston/)

> [The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guston/the-canvas-you-are-working-on-modifies-the-previous-ones-in-an/)

[Philip Guston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guston/)

> [I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guston/i-do-not-see-why-the-loss-of-faith-in-the-known-image-and-symbol-in/)

[Philip Guston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guston/)

> [The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guston/the-things-i-felt-about-certain-painters-of-the-past-that-inspired-me/)

[Philip Guston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guston/)

> [I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guston/i-am-a-night-painter-so-when-i-come-into-the-studio-the-next-morning/)

[Philip Guston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guston/)

> [Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guston/usually-i-am-on-a-work-for-a-long-stretch-until-a-moment-arrives-when/)

[Philip Guston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guston/)

> [All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guston/all-these-troubles-revolve-around-the-irritable-mutual-dependence-of/)

[Philip Guston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guston/)

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