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Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
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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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 forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.
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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
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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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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
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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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Art should not have to be a certain way.
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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 texture of experience is prior to everything else.
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I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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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 think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
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The past does not influence me I influence it.
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Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.
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