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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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My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
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If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.
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I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.
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Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.
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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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The texture of experience is prior to everything else.
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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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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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