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I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
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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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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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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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.
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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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