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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
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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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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The texture of experience is prior to everything else.
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The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
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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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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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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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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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In art one idea is as good as another.
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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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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Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
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