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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.
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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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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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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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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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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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.
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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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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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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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Content is a glimpse.
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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
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I have to change to stay the same.
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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 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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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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You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.
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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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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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