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Inspirational Quotes by Willem de Kooning
- I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
- 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.
- In art one idea is as good as another.
- Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
- I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
- An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
- Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
- Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
- 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…
- I have to change to stay the same.
- What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.
- An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it...
- If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
- Content is a glimpse.
- The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
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