The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links. Philip Guston More Quotes by Philip Guston More Quotes From Philip Guston 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 blind man in a dark room had some clay, what would he make? I end up with 2 or 3 forms on a canvas, but it gets very physical for me. Philip Guston dark men hands The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance. Philip Guston judging trials art 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 kind of rhythm. Philip Guston canvas kind mean All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed. Philip Guston trouble art needs There comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you have all experienced it... What counts is that the paint should really disappear, otherwise it's craft. Philip Guston mysterious-things crafts thinking 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 and spaces will appear... making itself, the image taking hold. This in turn moves me toward painting - anxious to get to the same place, with the actuality of paint and light. Philip Guston lucky-day light moving More than a process, painting is being possessed. Philip Guston possessed painting process
