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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.

Source: A Desperate View, paper, 18 Feb. 1949, delivered to friends in New York; published in William de Kooning, by Thomas B. Hess, 1968.
-- 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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