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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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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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Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.
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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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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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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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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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In art one idea is as good as another.
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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 texture of experience is prior to everything else.
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Art should not have to be a certain way.
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I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
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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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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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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 make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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I have to change to stay the same.
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Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
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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 past does not influence me I influence it.
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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