Picked up "Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston" by Ross Feld at @skylightbooks Thursday night. I'm having a hard time putting it down. "Advice to myself- Do not make laws. Do not form habits. You do not possess a way- You do not possess a style- You have nothing finally but some "mysterious" urge -to use the stuff-the matter. The Buddhists write— "When you walk, walk—When you sit, sit—but know that you are walking—know that you are sitting." But I am not a Buddhist—even that is denied me. My spirit needs matter—a medium—which resists the peaceful—balanced resolution of forms and spaces. I need a medium through which I can show myself-—to myself-—concretely—tangibly—what I am—what my condition is. Unlike a monk, my self or mind-self is not my medium—/ cannot contemplate myself into myself. I don't know. It could be that the Buddhist's way is an ultimate state which I have not reached. I am not certain if this is true. I doubt it. Yet could it be that it is vain—-for the self to show itself to the self, and also know that this is what is being done, as it is being done, & in such a way that it cannot stop this being done? Corporeal. Fleshly. Is this what it is then, to be an artist? It is a question of some magnitude." -#PhilipGuston Guston in Time by Ross Feld I have not stopped thinking about this quote. This book is filled with lots of things to think about. I wish I could get to the MFA show. #ArtBooks #WhatImReading #ArtHistoryBooks #ArtBooks #BooksOnPainting https://www.instagram.com/p/CfiFtAwL9Cu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=