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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.

Source: Painting As Self Discovery, interview, 30 Dec. 1960, BBC.
-- Willem de Kooning, (Apr 24 1904-1997), Dutch-US painter; He was one of the leading exponents of Abstract Expressionism, particularly the form known as Action painting.

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