"I think I'm painting a picture of two……" — Willem de Kooning
"I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape."
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40 Quotes by Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning has 40 quotes on this site.
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
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The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down…
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Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I…
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The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.
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Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's…
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I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint…
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In art one idea is as good as another.
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Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did…
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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
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Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
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I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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More Landscape Quotes
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one of 873 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
— Ansel Adams
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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
— Luis Barragan
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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot…
— Cecil Beaton
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
— Samuel Beckett
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In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
— Gerald Brenan
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Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet…
— Nolan Bushnell
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I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned…
— David Byrne
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Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a…
— Buzz Aldrin
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The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
— Paul Cezanne
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A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to…
— John Ciardi
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
— Isabel Allende
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