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
The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone. — 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 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
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
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
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
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
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 word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'.… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of… — 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
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
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 Image
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. — 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 becomes historical.… — 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
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
The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone. — 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 history. — 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
![“The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was] not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that…” quote by Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/df9/willem-de-kooning-12563_abstract_the-word-abstract-comes-from-the-light-t_1161081.jpg)
