"The artist fills space with an attitude. The……" — Willem de Kooning
"The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone."
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Willem de Kooning
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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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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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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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