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Philip Guston Quotes

1913–1980 Canada

Philip Guston (1913-07-27 – 1980-06-07) was a notable painter of the New York School, which included many of the Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning. In the 1960's Guston helped to lead the transition from Modernism to Post-Modernism in painting, abandoning the so-called 'pure abstraction' of Abstract Expressionism in favor of more cartoon-like renderings of various personal symbols and objects.

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Also known as: Phillip Guston

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I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man – myself – lives in a museum.

Everything is possible, everything except dogma, of any kind.. ..That's what it's about. Freedom. That's the only possession an artist has — freedom to do whatever you can imagine.

I got sick and tired of all that Purity! Wanted to tell stories.. [Guston's quote in 1967, referring to his swift from Abstract expressionism to figurative painting]

Sylvester: What about figuration in a more literal sense?

Interview with David Sylvester, BBC (1960)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Philip Guston (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.