Paint Quotes by Wanda Koop

It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked…

— Wanda Koop

I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.

— Wanda Koop

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

— Wanda Koop

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

— Wanda Koop

The light in the North is constantly a thrill for me.

— Wanda Koop

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

— Wanda Koop

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

— Wanda Koop

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

— Wanda Koop

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

— Wanda Koop

I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.

— Wanda Koop

For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

— Wanda Koop