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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.
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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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
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The past does not influence me I influence it.
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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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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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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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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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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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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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Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
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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 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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