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To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

Philip Guston
Painting, Argument, Begin Again
Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.53, Univ of California Press
To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.