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You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.
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'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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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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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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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
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An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
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The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
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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 make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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The past does not influence me I influence it.
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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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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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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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It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.
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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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I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
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I have to change to stay the same.
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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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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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