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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 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 attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
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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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You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.
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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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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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The past does not influence me I influence it.
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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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Art should not have to be a certain way.
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Content is a glimpse.
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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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 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'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
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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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In art one idea is as good as another.
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Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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