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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
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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Content is a glimpse.
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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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The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
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The past does not influence me I influence it.
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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
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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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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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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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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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If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
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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 texture of experience is prior to everything else.
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.
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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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