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Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
— Willem De Kooning
Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.
— Elaine De Kooning
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
— Willem De Kooning
I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.
— Willem De Kooning
You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.
— Willem De Kooning
Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
— Willem De Kooning
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
— Willem De Kooning
I have to change to stay the same.
— Willem De Kooning
An artist is someone who makes art ... He didn't invent it ...
— Willem De Kooning
Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
— Willem De Kooning
The texture of experience is prior to everything else.
— 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
If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.
— Willem De Kooning
In art one idea is as good as another.
— Willem De Kooning
Content is a glimpse.
— Willem De Kooning
Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.
— Willem De Kooning
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history..
— Willem De Kooning
The past does not influence me; I influence it.
— Willem De Kooning
I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.
— Elaine De Kooning
Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
— Willem De Kooning
The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.
— Willem 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 see the canvas and I begin ... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.
— Willem De Kooning
Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
— Willem De Kooning
I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
— Willem 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.
— Elaine De Kooning
Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
— Willem De Kooning
Art should not have to be a certain way,
— Willem De Kooning
Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
— Willem De Kooning
Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.
— Willem De Kooning
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
— Elaine De Kooning
The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.
— Willem De Kooning
I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
— Willem De Kooning
If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
— Willem De Kooning
The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
— Willem De Kooning
I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
— Willem De Kooning
I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
— Willem De Kooning
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
— Willem De Kooning
