A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that painting is an active, dynamic process rather than just a finished product.
Elaine De Kooning highlights the idea that the act of creating a painting, the energy and movement involved, is more significant than the final image that is produced. This perspective invites viewers to appreciate the experience of art-making and the emotional and physical expression it entails, rather than merely focusing on the artwork as a static object.
In practice
In an art class, a teacher might use this quote to inspire students to focus on the process of creation rather than the end result.
In my acting, I have to identify with something in the character. The big tough boy on the side of right - that's me. Simple themes. Same me from the nuances. All I do is sell sincerity and I've been selling the hell out of that ever since I started.
On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of a lifelike quality. You see, actually lifelike, tape-recorded dialogue like this has very little to do with good novel dialogue. It's a matter of getting that awful tyranny of mimesis out of your mind, which is difficult.
It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward roll, as well as all the tributaries that would swell it, and the obstacles that would divert it. If only she could reproduce the clear light of a summer's morning.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want_x000D_ to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
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