“You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you see clearly what you wish to paint; start quickly, move the brush, follow straight what you see before you, as the buzzard swoops down when the hare jumps out. If you hesitate one moment, it is gone.” IfsMindFirstsMomentsMovingWishRealizingAttentionGonePaintConcentrationBrushesHaresBuzzards Author:Morris Graves
“Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert paint. Then I look back at the canvas, and it's not inert - it's active, moving and living.” LooksSometimesMatterBigsMovingFieldsPaintActiveCowsCanvasDissatisfaction Author:Philip Guston
“Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms and spaces will appear... making itself, the image taking hold. This in turn moves me toward painting - anxious to get to the same place, with the actuality of paint and light.” LightMovingFormTurnsSpacePaintingBalanceLuckyDrawsRelationPaintAnxiousSurprisingActualityMethodologyLucky Day Book:The drawings of Philip Guston Source: The drawings of Philip Guston
“Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it off, and bang! you're there: it's so direct. I think Manet was very direct, he didn't prepare his canvases like Courbet, he just put paint straight on and it's very like that with steel.” ThinkingUseMovingEasyNiceCuttingMaterialsDirectSticksPaintSteelBangs Author:Anthony Caro
“I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.” MovingArtistPaintInterpretation Author:Lawrence Durrell