Willem de Kooning Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• 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.

  Willem de Kooning

  Ideas, Cezanne, Painting

• 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.

  Willem de Kooning

  Horse, Pain, Integrity

• I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.

  Willem de Kooning

  Thinking, Two, Landscape

  "Julian T Borlaski’s Gowanus Atropolis" by Nicolle Elizabeth, believermag.com. February 1, 2012.

• I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

  Willem de Kooning

  Looks, Might, Months

• Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

  Willem de Kooning

  Oil, Flesh, Reason Why

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 14 Oct. 1974

• 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 putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.

  Willem de Kooning

  Horse, Pain, Drama

• Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.

  Willem de Kooning

  Art, Phases, Occupation

  Willem De Kooning, Gagosian Gallery (2004). “De Kooning: a centennial exhibition”

• I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting

  Willem de Kooning

  Color, World, Painting

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