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Willem de Kooning has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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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…
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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…
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The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.
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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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I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way…
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In art one idea is as good as another.
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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…
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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the…
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I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different…
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Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
— Willem de Kooning
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One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to…
— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
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I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.
— Katherine McCoy
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Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every…
— William Butler Yeats
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Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern…
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