All WILLEM DE KOONING Quotes about “Painting”

“Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.”

“I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.”
“I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.”
“Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented”
“I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting”
“I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.”
“I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.”

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