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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.
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'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
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Content is a glimpse.
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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 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 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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The texture of experience is prior to everything else.
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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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Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
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