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The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
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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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 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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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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