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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 might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.
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Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
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It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.
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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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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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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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Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
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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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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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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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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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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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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
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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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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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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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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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Content is a glimpse.
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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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The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
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