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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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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The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
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My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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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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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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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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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'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
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I have to change to stay the same.
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