Quotes by Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning

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.

Artist

Men

Thinking

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.

Art

Peaceful

Thinking

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

Abstract

Shapes

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

Abstract

Abstraction

Form

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

Flesh

Oil

Reason Why

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something – a member of a team writing American history.

Baseball

Team

Writing

I have to change to stay the same.

I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in – like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn’t matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

Horse

Integrity

Pain

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!

Classic

Dimples

Students

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.

Able

Canvas

Evil

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Able

Abstract

Abstraction

Art

Artist

Attitude

Baseball

Beautiful

Brushes

Canvas

Classic

Dies

Dimples

Doe

Drama

Drawing

Edges

Evil

Eye

Feelings

Fingers

Finishing

Flesh

Form

Greek

Hands

Happiness

Have Faith

Historical

Home

Horse

House

Hype

Ideas

Integrity

Lasts

Light

Lying

Men

Night

Noses

Oil

Pain

Paint

Peaceful

Pockets

Portraiture

Poverty

Powerful

Problem

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

Tool

The Autobiography

Tool

The Behaviour Diary

Tool

The Dating Diary

Tool

The Relationship Therapist

Tool

Quotes by Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning

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 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.

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something – a member of a team writing American history.

I have to change to stay the same.

I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in – like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn’t matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

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!

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.

Get Social with TBU

Topics by Willem de Kooning

Popular Tools

The Future Blueprint

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

The Autobiography

The Behaviour Diary

The Dating Diary

The Relationship Therapist

Menu

Menu