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

2. "To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing." ~ Philip Guston

3. "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." ~ Philip Guston

4. "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 Guston

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

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

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

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