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Willem de Kooning
Age: 92 †
Born: 1904
Born: April 24
Died: 1997
Died: March 19
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
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I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
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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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Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
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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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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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Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
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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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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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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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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.
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What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.
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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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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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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 make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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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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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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