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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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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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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If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
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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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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
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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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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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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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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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Art should not have to be a certain way.
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The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
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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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I have to change to stay the same.
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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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In art one idea is as good as another.
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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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It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.
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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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