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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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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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You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.
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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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Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
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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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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
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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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Content is a glimpse.
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If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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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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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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It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.
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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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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.
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