Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooningwas a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth24 April 1904
CountryUnited States of America
littles said fixed
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.
vision glimpse
Content is a glimpse.
art artist
An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it...
dimples students classic
I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you really get the measure of them, you really know what to do. And then, put in your own dimples. Isn't that marvelous!
tiny encounters glimpse
Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
hands pockets fingers
Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.
artist doe lasts
Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
space needs arms
If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.
texture
The texture of experience is prior to everything else.
thinking two landscape
I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
happiness artist problem
If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
summer winter naps
The point they (Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Gabo , the neo-Plasticists, and so on) all had in common was to be inside and outside at the same time ... For me, to be inside and outside is to be in an unheated studio with broken windows in the winter, or taking a nap on somebody's porch in the summer.
tree dollars paint
Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
artist free-will paint
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.