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Form Quotes by 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 not…
- Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some…
- Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up where it was in the…
- Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms…
- I feel more as if I'm shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I've always wanted to get to that state. Like a…
- To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must…
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