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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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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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You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.
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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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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
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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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My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
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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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Art should not have to be a certain way.
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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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Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
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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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I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
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I have to change to stay the same.
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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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In art one idea is as good as another.
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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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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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