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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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Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.
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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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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
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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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Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
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In art one idea is as good as another.
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I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you really get the measure of them, you really know what to do. And then, put in your own dimples. Isn't that marvelous!
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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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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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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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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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If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.
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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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Content is a glimpse.
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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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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 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 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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