Willem de Kooning Quotes and Sayings
- Name:
- Willem de Kooning (random)
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- Type:
- Artist
- Nationality:
- American
- Birth Date / Year:
- April 24, 1904
- Death Date / Year:
- March 19, 1997
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. Willem de Kooning | Refcard PDF ↑
- 2
Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. Willem de Kooning | Refcard PDF ↑
- 3
I don't paint to live, I live to paint. Willem de Kooning | Refcard PDF ↑
- 4
I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art. Willem de Kooning | Refcard PDF ↑
- 5
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate. Willem de Kooning | Refcard PDF ↑
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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. Willem de Kooning | Refcard PDF ↑
- 7
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves. Willem de Kooning | Refcard PDF ↑
- 8
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. Willem de Kooning | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. He acts from or upon other artists. Willem de Kooning | Refcard PDF ↑
