Art Quote by Philip Guston Download Open image “Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.” — Philip Guston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Frustration Great things Satisfaction
Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working. — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
“The only satisfactions available are the satisfactions of reality, which are themselves frustrating.” — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
Frustration disturbs the ability of your creativity, where fearless attitude helps you out. — Farid Copy Share Image
Satisfaction comes from the inside out, so people keep gravitating from things externally to try to fill something - get a man to complete… — Paula White Copy Share Image
I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you. — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art. — Eric Gibbons Copy Share Image
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… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
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… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
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… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light. — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
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… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can only hope… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom.… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
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