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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 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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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
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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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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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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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If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
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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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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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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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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.
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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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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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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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The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.
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The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.
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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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Art should not have to be a certain way.
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