I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - … - Willem de Kooning

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Willem de Kooning

I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

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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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