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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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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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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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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
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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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The point they (Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Gabo, the neo-Plasticists, and so on) all had in common was to be inside and outside at the same time. For me, to be inside and outside is to be in an unheated studio with broken windows in the winter, or taking a nap on somebody's porch in the summer.
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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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In art one idea is as good as another.
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Art should not have to be a certain way.
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The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
Willem de Kooning
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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