Willem de Kooning Quotes

"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 put some order into ourselves."
- Willem de Kooning
(Related: Nature, Attitude, Hope, Artist, Order)

"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time."
- Willem de Kooning
(Related: Time, Being, Poor, Trouble)

"Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns."
- Willem de Kooning
(Related: Fraud, Style)

"I don't paint to live, I live to paint."
- Willem de Kooning

"I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art."
- Willem de Kooning
(Related: Art)

"Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure."
- Willem de Kooning
(Related: Art)

"An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will."
- Willem de Kooning
(Related: Artist, Free will)

"Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists."
- Willem de Kooning
(Related: Feelings, Artist, Artists)