"What you do when you paint, you take……" — Willem de Kooning
"What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith."
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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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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 Brush Quotes
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on…
— Alton Brown
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Being in front of a camera, in a nice dress, getting all dressed up, is extreme. There's a lot of…
— Sandra Bullock
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This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the…
— Prince Charles
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Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who…
— Jerry Pate
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Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush…
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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I can't even find the perfect brush so I can paint what's going through my mind. Racing 'gainst myself but…
— Drake
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Make your face not look like your face by piling on like the heaviest makeup you can find and do…
— Jenna Marbles
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If you can't move your brush good, just move your face.
— Jenna Marbles
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His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what…
— Hippolyte Taine
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The mind paints before the brush.
— James Ellis
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A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.
— Joan Miro
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