Flesh Quote by Willem de Kooning Download Open image “Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented” — Willem de Kooning ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Flesh Oil Oil painting Painting Reason Reason why
“Oil painting, before anything else, was a celebration of private property. As an art-form it derived from the principle that you are what you… — John Berger Copy Share Image
... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“Oil paints were wiser to the human condition, understanding our imperfections and giving us enough time to rework ourselves until we made things right.” — S. Walden Copy Share Image
As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting. — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from… — James Rosenquist 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
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 Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a… — Harold McGee Copy Share Image
If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived. — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex for each one, put in the upper portion of the body and boiled that for about two hours and then the lower portion for another two hours. The Soilex removes all the flesh, turns it into… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share
If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
You asked me once if I would still love you when your lips were puckered with age and your eyes were faded. I can assure you that I will still love you when I have only the strength (and the scant teeth) left to gum those puckered lips. I shall love you when your bones are sharp enough to pierce… — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share
