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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.
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 have to change to stay the same.
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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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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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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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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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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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The texture of experience is prior to everything else.
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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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I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
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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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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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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.
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