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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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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 trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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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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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
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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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Content is a glimpse.
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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
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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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