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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.

— Philip Guston

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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)

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