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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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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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The past does not influence me I influence it.
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I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.
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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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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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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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The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.
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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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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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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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The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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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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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 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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You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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The texture of experience is prior to everything else.
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