"The problem with property is that it takes……" — Willem de Kooning
"The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time."
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Willem de Kooning
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40 Quotes by Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning has 40 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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More Fame Quotes
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see…
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you…
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Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some…
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I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame…
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I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone…
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may…
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I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
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