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WILLEM DE KOONING ~ ON BEING AN ARTIST

11 March 2011

“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.”

Willem de Kooning

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