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In art one idea is as good as another.
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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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy.
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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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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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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