Carolina QuotesThere is a time when you just take a walk.. ..you walk in your own landscape.. .It has an innocence that is kind of a grand feeling.. .Somehow I have the feeling that old man Monet might have felt like that, just simple in front of things, or old man Cézanne too.. .I really understand them now.
Willem de Kooning Connected to the Carolinas
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(1980's)as quoted in 'A painter's testament: De Kooning in the Eighties', Robert Storr, Moma-website, reprinted in 1997
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- 1980
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