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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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 make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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Art should not have to be a certain way.
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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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Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.
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The texture of experience is prior to everything else.
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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
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The past does not influence me I influence it.
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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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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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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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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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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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You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
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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'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
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Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
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Content is a glimpse.
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And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to a movement for each person and open for everybody.
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