“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 )”
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Guston on Walter Benjamin idea of corrective in art. Moving from Abstract to more narrative and allegorical work.
More from Philip Guston
“Everyone who creates anything knows, there is a moment. When a third hand is doing it.”
“There is something that is deathlike about making a unity which is quickly grasped.”
“I've always thought that a painter or artists first duty is to be free, to have freedom.”
“The paintings that didn't make it if you move a form over 6 inches it wouldn't matter.…”