"I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, image, form, color, or layout. I'm interested in all of them." - Willem de Kooning

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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

Source note: 'Unframed Space' article

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Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny, content.

Source note: BBC interview

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Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity.

Source note: MoMA symposium speech

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