Elaine de Kooning Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.”
-- Elaine de Kooning

#Events #Verbs #Nouns
“Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.”
-- Elaine de Kooning

#Children #Artist #Ideas
“I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.”
-- Elaine de Kooning

#Character #Style
“Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.”
-- Elaine de Kooning

#Artist #Cockroaches #Mills
“Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.”
-- Elaine de Kooning

#Artist #Creative #Isolation
“Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.”
-- Elaine de Kooning

#Inspiration #Indispensable
“I made my first trip west of the Hudson and it was a revelation. The naked musculature of the Rockies was overpowering and my painting responded.”
-- Elaine de Kooning

#Naked #West #Firsts

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