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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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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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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
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The past does not influence me I influence it.
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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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