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
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
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
When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got… — 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
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that… — 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 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
