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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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 of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
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The point they (Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Gabo, the neo-Plasticists, and so on) all had in common was to be inside and outside at the same time. For me, to be inside and outside is to be in an unheated studio with broken windows in the winter, or taking a nap on somebody's porch in the summer.
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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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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.
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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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What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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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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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 past does not influence me I influence it.
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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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The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.
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I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
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I have to change to stay the same.
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