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
art ideas trembling
In art one idea is as good as another.
thinking two landscape
I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
happiness artist problem
If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
summer winter naps
The point they (Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Gabo , the neo-Plasticists, and so on) all had in common was to be inside and outside at the same time ... For me, to be inside and outside is to be in an unheated studio with broken windows in the winter, or taking a nap on somebody's porch in the summer.
tree dollars paint
Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
artist free-will paint
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
ideas cezanne painting
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.
shapes abstract
Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
hype greek style
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
have-faith paint brushes
What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.
attitude artist space
The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.
eye hands drawing
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.
thinking today portraiture
It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.
art peaceful spirit
Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure...