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
horse pain integrity
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.
horse pain drama
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.
hype greek style
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
shapes abstract
Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
happiness artist problem
If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
tree dollars paint
Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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.
oil flesh reason-why
Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
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.
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.
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!