Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.
Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, ever… - Elaine De Kooning
Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, ever…
- Elaine De Kooning
I made my first trip west of the Hudson and it was a revelation. The naked musculature of the Rockies was overpowering and my painting responded. - Elaine De Kooning
I made my first trip west of the Hudson and it was a revelation. The naked musculature of the Rockies was overpowering and my painting responded.
Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods. - Elaine De Kooning
Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.
Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no… - Elaine De Kooning
Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no…
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image. - Elaine De Kooning
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are u… - Elaine De Kooning
Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are u…
Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill. - Elaine De Kooning
Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.
I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it. - Elaine De Kooning
I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.
For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, st… - Elaine De Kooning
For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, st…
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