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Philip Guston

painter, illustrator, muralist, lithographer, engraver, draftsperson, printmaker, architectural draftsperson, artist

1913  – 1980

Philip Guston was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. "Guston worked in a number of artistic modes, from Renaissance-inspired figuration to formally accomplished abstraction," and is now regarded as one of the "most important, powerful, and influential American painters of the last 100 years". He frequently depicted racism, antisemitism, fascism and American identity, as well as—especially in his later most cartoonish and mocking work—the banality of evil. In 2013, Guston's painting To Fellini set an auction record at Christie's when it sold for US$25.8 million.

All Quotes by Philip Guston

“To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.”
— Philip Guston
“I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.”
— Philip Guston
“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
“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