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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all 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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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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Content is a glimpse.
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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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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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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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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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Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
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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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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.
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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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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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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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