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The texture of experience is prior to everything else.
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 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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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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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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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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I have to change to stay the same.
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Content is a glimpse.
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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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The past does not influence me I influence it.
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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'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.
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Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
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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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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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Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
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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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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 don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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