Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.
Philip GustonI am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.
Philip GustonIt is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.
Philip GustonPainting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
Philip GustonLook at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.
Philip GustonPainting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
Philip Guston