Creativity Quote by Philip Guston

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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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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…

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Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make…

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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…

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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…

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Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.

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Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I…

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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…

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No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can only hope…

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We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

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The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded…

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I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom.…

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The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the…

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