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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.... (more Willem de Kooning quotes)
| Willem De Kooning: Paintings 1960-1980 by Ralph Ubl, Klaus Kertess, Willem de Kooning, and Harold Rosenberg | |
| Willem De Kooning (Taschen Basic Art) by Barbara Hess and Willem De Kooning | |
| Willem de Kooning: Works, Writings, Interviews (Essentials Poligrafa) by Sally Yard, James Valliere, Willem de Kooning, and Harold Rosenberg |