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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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Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy.
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I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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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 texture of experience is prior to everything else.
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And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to a movement for each person and open for everybody.
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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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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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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Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
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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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