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Willem de Kooning has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
• I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
• The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the…
• Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of…
• The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.
• Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.
• I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way…
• In art one idea is as good as another.
• Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He…
• Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
• Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
• I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

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