“[Painting is.. ] a kind of war between the moment and the pull of memory.”

—  Phillip Guston

quote in 1959
as quoted in Abstract Expressionism, David Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 155
1950 - 1960

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