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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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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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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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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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You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.
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The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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I have to change to stay the same.
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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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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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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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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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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
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The past does not influence me I influence it.
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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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The texture of experience is prior to everything else.
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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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If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.
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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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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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