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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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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent I couldn't go on. It did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light - all this silly talk about line, colour and form - because that was the thing I wanted to get hold of.
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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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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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Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy.
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The past does not influence me I influence it.
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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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I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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I have to change to stay the same.
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Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.
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The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.
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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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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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If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.
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In art one idea is as good as another.
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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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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
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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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