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Willem de Kooning

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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


— Willem de Kooning


#attitude

In art one idea is as good as another.


— Willem de Kooning


#ideas #art

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


— Willem de Kooning


#our time #poor #takes #time #trouble

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


— Willem de Kooning


#forced #free #free will #his #others

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.


— Willem de Kooning


#make #me #never #peaceful #pure

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.


— Willem de Kooning


#artist #attitude #chaotic #hope #i

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


— Willem de Kooning


#behind #columns #felt #fraud #greeks

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.


— Willem de Kooning


#area #artist #artists #becomes #canvas

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


— Willem de Kooning


#live #paint

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


— Willem de Kooning


#calls #comes #i #make #pictures






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Some of these paintings also appeared to reference early Mesopotamian / Akkadian works with the large eyes and squarely chiseled bodies. Estate
Since 1989 De Kooning's oeuvre was controlled primarily by sculptor Lisa de Kooning his only child; their attorney John Eastman the son of de Kooning’s longtime attorney Lee Eastman; and John Silberman an attorney who represented Lisa and Eastman in their court application to be appointed as de Kooning’s conservators and later represented his estate. From the late 1950s to the early 1960s De Kooning entered a new phase of nearly pure abstractions more related to landscape than to the human figure.

Willem de Kooning (April 24 1904 – March 19 1997) was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam the Netherlands. Other painters in this group included Jackson Pollock Elaine de Kooning Lee Krasner Franz Kline Arshile Gorky Mark Rothko Hans Hofmann Adolph Gottlieb Robert Motherwell Philip Guston and Clyfford Still.

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