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The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
Willem de Kooning
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Willem de Kooning
Age: 92 †
Born: 1904
Born: April 24
Died: 1997
Died: March 19
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I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.
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The point they (Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Gabo, the neo-Plasticists, and so on) all had in common was to be inside and outside at the same time. For me, to be inside and outside is to be in an unheated studio with broken windows in the winter, or taking a nap on somebody's porch in the summer.
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I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.
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If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.
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I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you really get the measure of them, you really know what to do. And then, put in your own dimples. Isn't that marvelous!
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What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.
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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.
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It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.
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