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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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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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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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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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The past does not influence me I influence it.
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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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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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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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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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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 might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.
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The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.
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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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Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
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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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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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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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