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“Everyone who creates anything knows, there is a moment. When a third hand is doing it.”
— Philip Guston, Conversations with Philip Guston
Tagged: Painters on Painting, Abstract Expressionism
“There is something that is deathlike about making a unity which is quickly grasped.”
— Philip Guston, Conversations with Philip Guston
Tagged: Painters on Painting, Abstract Expressionism
“I've always thought that a painter or artists first duty is to be free, to have freedom.”
— Philip Guston, Conversations with Philip Guston
Tagged: Painters on Painting, Abstract Expressionism
“The paintings that didn't make it if you move a form over 6 inches it wouldn't matter.

However in these paintings if you move something a half an inch it would matter. There is a sense of inevitability in the image.”
— Philip Guston, Conversations with Philip Guston
Tagged: Painters on Painting, Abstract Expressionism
“It's a kind of obsessive image in which there are no corrections. But that's not the usual. Usually it's an approximate subject a free floating subject. In which I apply my means of painting unto”
— Philip Guston, Conversations with Philip Guston
Tagged: Painters on Painting, Abstract Expressionism
“It's almost as if I instinctively, or compulsively ( perhaps that's better ) started to get involved in something that I was involved in much earlier in my career ( 30s/40s )”
— Philip Guston, Conversations with Philip Guston
Tagged: Painters on Painting, Abstract Expressionism
“I have no trouble having a lot of things on my mind”
— Philip Guston, Conversations with Philip Guston
Tagged: Painters on Painting, Abstract Expressionism
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