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Paint Quotes by Willem de Kooning
- I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
- 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…
- An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
- I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure,…
- What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.
- Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
- 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…
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