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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.

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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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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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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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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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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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
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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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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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The past does not influence me I influence it.
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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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Art should not have to be a certain way.
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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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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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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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Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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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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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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