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Art should not have to be a certain way.
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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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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Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
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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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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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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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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.
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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
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The past does not influence me I influence it.
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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
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Content is a glimpse.
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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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You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.
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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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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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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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I have to change to stay the same.
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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 texture of experience is prior to everything else.
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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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