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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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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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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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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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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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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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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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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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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 texture of experience is prior to everything else.
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.
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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
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The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
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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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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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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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Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.
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Content is a glimpse.
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