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
beautiful powerful thinking
When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If the bookkeepers think it necessary to make sure of where things and people came from, well then, I came from 36 Union Square ... I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence.
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.
art
I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
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.
art phases occupation
Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.