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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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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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In art one idea is as good as another.
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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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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.
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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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I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.
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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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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 think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
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The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.
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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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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
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What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
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Art should not have to be a certain way.
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