Philip Guston: A Life Lived (1981)
Philip Guston: Self
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Philip Guston : Every artist, painter has his own temperament, of course. My temperament seems to need, or I'm not happy, not happy, not involved, unless I have, I call it a contest, a contest between a subject and the plastic form it will result in.
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Philip Guston : I remember destroying a whole group of pictures in the latter part of this period, because they didn't ring true to me and it was sure sign to me that I wasn't involved in it. And I was using this subject as an excuse to make pictures and nothing's more boring in the world than to make pictures. I mean what you want is an experience of making something that you haven't seen before in that way.
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Philip Guston : It seems like every five or six years or something like that I begin feeling that I've exhausted something and gradually move into another thing. Dissatisfaction entered into the work you've done in the past five years. Not that problems have to be solved, because nothing is ever solved in painting. It's a continuous chain that sometimes doesn't go in one line, but goes in a serpentine line or in crooked paths, detours, which have to be investigated.
