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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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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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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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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 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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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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I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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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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Art should not have to be a certain way.
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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'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
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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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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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