Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooningwas a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth24 April 1904
CountryUnited States of America
men thinking artist
And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to a movement for each person and open for everybody.
littles said fixed
Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.
vision glimpse
Content is a glimpse.
art artist
An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it...
art peaceful seems
Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
dimples students classic
I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you really get the measure of them, you really know what to do. And then, put in your own dimples. Isn't that marvelous!
tiny encounters glimpse
Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
hands pockets fingers
Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.
art thinking peaceful
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.
artist doe lasts
Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
artist space ideas
The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.
space needs arms
If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.
texture
The texture of experience is prior to everything else.
art years gone
Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.