An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden,… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger,… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share
Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical.… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share
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 Copy Share
If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share
The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share
Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share
Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share
Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share
