When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If… — 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
