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.
I have to change to stay the same. - Willem De Kooning
I have to change to stay the same.
- Willem De Kooning
What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith. - Willem De Kooning
What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.
I don't paint to live, I live to paint. - Willem De Kooning
I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep p… - Willem De Kooning
I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep p…
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. - Willem De Kooning
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies. - Willem De Kooning
You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.
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 … - Willem De Kooning
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 …
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 … - Willem De Kooning
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 attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to pu… - Willem De Kooning
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to pu…
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