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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 make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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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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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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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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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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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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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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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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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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Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.
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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 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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Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
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In art one idea is as good as another.
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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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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 '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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Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
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If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
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Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.
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