Willem de Kooning Quotes

• I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.

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  Horse, Pain, Drama

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• I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

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  Looks, Might, Months

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• I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

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  Art, Passion, Paint

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• I have to change to stay the same.

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  Barbara Hess, Willem De Kooning (2004). “Willem de Kooning, 1904-1997: Content as a Glimpse”, p.79, Taschen

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• 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.

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  Art, Attitude, Thinking

  Willem De Kooning, John Elderfield, Lauren Mahony (2011). “De Kooning: A Retrospective”, p.192, The Museum of Modern Art

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• 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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  Have Faith, Paint, Brushes

  Willem De Kooning, John Elderfield, Lauren Mahony (2011). “De Kooning: A Retrospective”, p.17, The Museum of Modern Art

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• I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

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  Horse, Pain, Integrity

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• The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.

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  Eye, Hands, Drawing

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• Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.

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  Ideas, Cezanne, Painting

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• The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

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  Time, Poverty, Trouble

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• I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting

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  Color, World, Painting

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• You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.

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  Dies, Edges

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• Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.

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  Tree, Dollars, Paint

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• Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

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  Shapes, Abstract

  Willem De Kooning, John Elderfield, Lauren Mahony (2011). “De Kooning: A Retrospective”, p.13, The Museum of Modern Art

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• Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.

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  Encounters, Glimpse, Tiny

  Barbara Hess, Willem De Kooning (2004). “Willem de Kooning, 1904-1997: Content as a Glimpse”, p.74, Taschen

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• La textura de la experiencia es anterior a todo lo demás.

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  Textura

  "Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works". Book by David Anfam, p. 150, 1990.

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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. An artist is someone who makes art too. He did not invent it. How it started — "to hell with it." It is obvious that it has no progress. The idea of space is given him to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space. He fills it with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.

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  Attitude, Artist, Space

  "Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute".

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• I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

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  Arte

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• Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

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  Hype, Greek, Style

  1949 'A Desperate View', lecture given in NewYork.

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• Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.

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  Art, Thinking, Peaceful

  Willem De Kooning (1979). “Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute”

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• The past does not influence me; I influence it.

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  Inspiración, Motivación, Pasado

  "Bloodroot" by Seth Colter Walls, pitchfork.com. April 20, 2017.

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• La carne fue la razón por la que se inventó la pintura al óleo

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  Oil, Flesh, Reason Why

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 14 Oct. 1974

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• The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn't go on. It did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light - all this silly talk about line, colour and form - because that was the thing I wanted to get hold of.

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  Silly, Light, Idols

  Willem De Kooning, Gagosian Gallery (2004). “De Kooning: a centennial exhibition”

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• Content is a glimpse.

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  Vision, Glimpse, Awe

  Willem De Kooning (2001). “Willem De Kooning: Vellums : March 21-April 21, 2001”, Mitchell-Inness & Nash

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• I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.

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  Thinking, Two, Landscape

  "Julian T Borlaski’s Gowanus Atropolis" by Nicolle Elizabeth, believermag.com. February 1, 2012.

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