Guston interview

 There is a moment; there is a time, when a third hand is doing it. 

The whole work is one painting, but you decide when to pause; when the painting opens a new question that you can continue elsewhere. When it's a good one, it's like it can't be any other way; if you move something one inch it wouldn't work.

With age you have a broader range, you exclude less things

A veces está pintando una parte del cuadro mientras mira otra.

Subject matter gets in the way, it's reductive (doesn't open.) Benjamin: content is the "corrective to art", undermining a false sense of unity

A masterwork must be flawed. It allows for continuity, to keep painting. Potential to lead to more stabs at it

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