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Dutch born American Painter, one of the leading exponents of Abstract Expressionism. 1904-1997
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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“I don't paint to live, I live to paint.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“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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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“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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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things -- the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“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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