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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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I have to change to stay the same.
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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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The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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