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> [The point they (Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Gabo, the neo-Plasticists, and so on) all had in common was to be inside and outside at the same time. For me, to be inside and outside is to be in an unheated studio…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-de-kooning/the-point-they-lissitzky-rodchenko-tatlin-gabo-the-neo-plasticists/)

[Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-de-kooning/)

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## More by Willem de Kooning

> [The texture of experience is prior to everything else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-de-kooning/the-texture-of-experience-is-prior-to-everything-else/)

[Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-de-kooning/)

> [Art should not have to be a certain way,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-de-kooning/art-should-not-have-to-be-a-certain-way/)

[Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-de-kooning/)

> [I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-de-kooning/i-think-i-m-painting-a-picture-of-two-women-but-it-may-turn-out-to-be/)

[Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-de-kooning/)

> [Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-de-kooning/im-not-someone-whos-ever-said-anything-definitive-about-his-work-in/)

[Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-de-kooning/)

> [Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-de-kooning/style-is-a-fraud-i-always-felt-the-greeks-were-hiding-behind-their/)

[Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-de-kooning/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-de-kooning/whatever-an-artist-s-personal-feelings-are-as-soon-as-an-artist-fills/)

[Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-de-kooning/)

> [The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-de-kooning/the-idea-of-space-is-given-to-the-artist-to-change-if-he-can-the/)

[Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-de-kooning/)

> [If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-de-kooning/if-i-stretch-my-arms-and-wonder-where-my-fingers-are-that-is-all-the/)

[Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-de-kooning/)

> [The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-de-kooning/the-artist-fills-space-with-an-attitude-the-attitude-never-comes-from/)

[Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-de-kooning/)

> [Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-de-kooning/flesh-was-the-reason-why-oil-painting-was-invented/)

[Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-de-kooning/)

> [I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-de-kooning/i-feel-sometimes-an-american-artist-must-feel-like-a-baseball-player/)

[Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-de-kooning/)

> [Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-de-kooning/maybe-in-that-earlier-phase-i-was-painting-the-woman-in-me-art-isn-t/)

[Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-de-kooning/)

> [Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-de-kooning/yes-i-am-influenced-by-everbody-but-every-time-i-put-my-hands-in-my/)

[Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-de-kooning/)

> [I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-de-kooning/i-d-like-to-get-all-the-colors-in-the-world-into-one-painting/)

[Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-de-kooning/)

> [Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-de-kooning/spiritually-i-am-wherever-my-spirit-allows-me-to-be-and-that-is-not/)

[Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-de-kooning/)

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