To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These … - Philip Guston

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Ronald Reagan got a lot of democrats. I wish he hadn`t. I got to Congress with Reagan coming to the Whitehouse. The Reagan Program, a very radical one, a very drastic one passed because he had a lot of democrats. He worked at it personally and also because Reagan retained a popularity.

Philip Guston

To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must especially be removed to clear the way for something else.

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Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up where it was in the first place. But at the end it feels different, and it had to make the voyage. I am a moralist and cannot accept what has not been paid for, or a form that has not been lived through.

Different, Moralist, Moving, Paid, Place, Wind

I go to the studio everyday because one day I may go and the Angel will be there. What if I don't go and the Angel comes?

Angel, Everyday, Studio, What If

What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain things can happen, unaccountably the unknown and free must appear.

Painting, States, Certain, Unaccountably, Evidence

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.

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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.

Like, Man, Men, Museum, Museums, Painting