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Philip Guston

"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."

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Donna Grant

"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."

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Donna Grant

"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."

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Donna Grant

"Give thy thoughts no tongue."

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Donna Grant

"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

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Donna Grant

"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

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Donna Grant

"Doubt isn't original."

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Donna Grant

"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."

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Donna Grant

"Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out."

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Donna Grant

"The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity."

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Donna Grant

"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

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Philip Guston
"The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see."

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Philip Guston
"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."

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Philip Guston
"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."

Thought

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Philip Guston
"Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe."

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Philip Guston
"In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?"

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Philip Guston
"Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation."

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Philip Guston
"I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over."

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Philip Guston
"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."

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Philip Guston
"Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see."

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