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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4109/">Quotes by <em>Kooning, Willem De</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"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."

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

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"In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble."

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

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