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Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
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 don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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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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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
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The point they (Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Gabo, the neo-Plasticists, and so on) all had in common was to be inside and outside at the same time. For me, to be inside and outside is to be in an unheated studio with broken windows in the winter, or taking a nap on somebody's porch in the summer.
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I have to change to stay the same.
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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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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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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 past does not influence me I influence it.
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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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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
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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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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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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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In art one idea is as good as another.
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Content is a glimpse.
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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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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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