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. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
art way certain
Art should not have to be a certain way,
art light house
the word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers ... one of their spotlights that they have particularly focussed on 'Art' ... (abstraction was) not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.
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.
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.
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.
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.
art ideas trembling
In art one idea is as good as another.
happiness artist problem
If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
artist free-will paint
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
attitude artist space
The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.