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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.
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'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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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
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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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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 '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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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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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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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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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
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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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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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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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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
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In art one idea is as good as another.
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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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