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The texture of experience is prior to everything else.
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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Then there is a time in life when you just take a walk: And you walk in your own landscape.
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Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny—very tiny, content.
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What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.
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The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.
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Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.
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To Andy Warhol:
You're a killer of art, you're a killer of beauty, and you're even a killer of laughter. I can't bear your work!
De Kooning was drunk when he suddenly turned to Warhol and said these words
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I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history..
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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.
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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 thought of this, I found five years had gone by.
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The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
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Born:
April 24, 1904
Died:
March 19, 1997
(aged 92)
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