Guston Art Quotes & Sayings

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing. — Philip Guston

No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can only hope that you are alert - ready - to see. What joy it is for paint to become a thing - a being. Believe in this miracle - it is your only hope. To will this transformation is not possible. Only a slow maturation can prepare the hand and eye to become quicker than ever. Ideas about art don't matter. They collapse anyway in front of the painting. — Philip Guston

Fine," Julian agreed grudgingly. "But if that idiot Barack happens by with his hangdog look, tell him to keep going. — Christine Feehan

Sometimes I got scared of being too honest, because being in the public eye, I have always tried to hide my personal life. But I realized that isn't healthy. — Hilary Duff

Counting each day's blessings helps you overcome each week's troubles. — Matshona Dhliwayo

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. — Philip Guston

No one who works for a living should live in poverty. — Edward Kennedy

Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's really important for women to embrace their title. — Tory Burch

But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible. The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance. — Philip Guston

Are you ready?" "Yes, I am!" Gorik would answer, even if he wasn't quite ready, which happened often, since he was a sleepyhead and a "cunctator," that is, a "procrastinator," as his father said. — Yury Trifonov

There are so many things in the world - in the cities - so much to see. Does art need to represent this variety and contribute to its proliferation? Can art be that free? The difficulties begin when you understand what it is that the soul will not permit the hand to make. — Philip Guston

Those words of my friend were like fertilizer poured over the poisonous weed of an idea deeply planted in me. — Yukio Mishima

I love myself when I am laughing ... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive. — Zora Neale Hurston

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

Was that all love did for you? Made you give up and give in? Left you open to pain and hurt? — Malorie Blackman

All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed ... — Philip Guston

I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film. — Anjelica Huston

What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry. — Flemming Rose

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood. — Saul Bellow

China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the nations of the world. Her contribution to the civilization of mankind is imperishable. She has been a keen lover of peace; she has had a deep respect for international justice. — Chiang Kai-shek

There was a very small pile of silver Sickles inside, and just one gold Galleon. — J.K. Rowling