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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.
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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Content is a glimpse.
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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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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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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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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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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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Art should not have to be a certain way.
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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 have to change to stay the same.
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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 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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