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.
art artist
An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it...
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.
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.
artist feelings historical
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.
abstract form abstraction
Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
thinking noses today
If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.
rain home night
Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy.
evil able canvas
I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.
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,