Temporary State Quotes by Philip Guston

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• More than a process, painting is being possessed...
• There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.
• Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and…
• There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.
• In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who…
• Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make…
• To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
• Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
• No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can…
• Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.
• I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as…
• Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

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