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
have-faith paint brushes
What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.
texture
The texture of experience is prior to everything else.
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.
oil flesh reason-why
Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
color world painting
I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
rain home night
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.
vision glimpse
Content is a glimpse.
dies edges
You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.
baseball team writing
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history..
problem fame property
The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
tiny encounters glimpse
Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
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.
artist doe lasts
Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
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!