Willem de Kooning Quotes and Sayings - Page 2

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Painting,

“Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy.”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Rain #Home #Night
“An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it...”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Art #Artist
“Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Tree #Dollars #Paint
“Art shouldÂ notÂ have to be a certain way,”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Art #Way #Certain
“Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Art #Peaceful
“Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Abstract #Form
“The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Problem #Fame #Property
“Content is a glimpse.”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Vision #Glimpse
“Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Tiny #Encounters #Glimpse
“In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Art #Ideas #Trembling
“Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Littles #Said #Fixed
“Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Oil #Flesh #Painting
“Even abstract shapes must have a likeness”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Shapes #Abstract
“Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Art #Thinking #Peaceful
“The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Artist #Space #Ideas
“The texture of experience is prior to everything else.”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Texture
“Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Artist #Lasts #Firsts
“If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Space #Needs #Arms
“It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Thinking #Today #Portraiture
“If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Happiness #Artist #Problem
“I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting”
-- Willem de Kooning

#Color #World #Painting

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