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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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I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
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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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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 make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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