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The past does not influence me I influence it.
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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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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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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Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.
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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
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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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I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.
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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.
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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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I have to change to stay the same.
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Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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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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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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I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
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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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Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
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Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
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