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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.
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 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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Content is a glimpse.
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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'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
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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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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.
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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
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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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Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
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The past does not influence me I influence it.
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The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
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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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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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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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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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