Quotes by Willem De Kooning

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area...

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

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The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is...

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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

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My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate....

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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

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