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And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to a movement for each person and open for everybody.
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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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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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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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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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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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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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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I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
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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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Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
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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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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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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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