"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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Source : "Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute".

Willem de Kooning

#Artist Quotes #Historical Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.”
“Thatâ€™s the tricky thing about love. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and smells like a duck. But after you sleep with it a month or so, or get dumped at the altar by it, it starts smelling more like a skunk.”
“If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.”
“Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your manuscript?" "Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?"”
“Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.”
“I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 12, 2010.
“Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.”
“Things are going so well. Weâ€™re volleying words back and forth. Everything she says, I have something I can say back. Weâ€™re sparking, and part of me just wants to sit back and watch. Weâ€™re clicking. Not because a part of me is fitting into a part of her. But because our words are clicking into each other to form sentences and our sentences are clicking into each other to form dialogue and our dialogue is clicking together to form this scene from this ongoing movie thatâ€™s as comfortable as it is unrehearsed.”

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