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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.
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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The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent I couldn't go on. It did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light - all this silly talk about line, colour and form - because that was the thing I wanted to get hold of.
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Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
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Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
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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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I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.
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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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In art one idea is as good as another.
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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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You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.
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I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
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The past does not influence me I influence it.
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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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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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.
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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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If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.
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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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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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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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