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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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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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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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Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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Content is a glimpse.
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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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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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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 make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
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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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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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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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You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.
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The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
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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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Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
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In art one idea is as good as another.
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