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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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 think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
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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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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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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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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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