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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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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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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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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 think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
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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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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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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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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'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
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