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Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
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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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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Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
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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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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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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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I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you really get the measure of them, you really know what to do. And then, put in your own dimples. Isn't that marvelous!
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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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 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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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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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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Art should not have to be a certain way.
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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
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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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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
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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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