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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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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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The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
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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 have to change to stay the same.
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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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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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Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
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I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.
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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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Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... 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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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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I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.
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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
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Art should not have to be a certain way.
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