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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
I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.
— Willem Dafoe
Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.
— Willem Dafoe
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
— Willem De Kooning
I'm not a protocol fetishist. It's more important to me that people feel at ease when I'm with them.
— Willem-Alexander, Prince Of Orange
I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.
— Willem De Kooning
Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.
— Willem Dafoe
It was, he and Willem agreed, one of the best letters they'd ever read.
— Hanya Yanagihara
Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.
— Willem Dafoe
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
You have to lose yourself to find yourself.
— Willem Dafoe
I have to change to stay the same.
— Willem De Kooning
Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
— 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
Pg 685 And so home he goes, and he waits and waits for Willem to appear to him. But he doesn't, and finally he sleeps.
— Hanya Yanagihara
Springtime to me used to mean doing things - bicycling, fishing, canoeing. Now it seems more like the fulfillment of a divine promise.
— Willem Lange
Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.
— Willem Dafoe
Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law and at the same time insists he's innocent.
— Franz Kafka
Art should not have to be a certain way,
— Willem De Kooning
Love is not something you protect. It's something you risk.
— Gayle Forman
In art one idea is as good as another.
— Willem De Kooning
Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
— Willem De Kooning
Even abstract shapes must have a likeness
— Willem De Kooning
I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.
— Willem Dafoe
One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.
— Willem-Alexander, Prince Of Orange
The past does not influence me; I influence it.
— 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
Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
— Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.
— Willem Dafoe
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
Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.
— Willem De Kooning
You see, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law, and at the same time claims he's innocent.
— Franz Kafka
The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing.
— Willem Dafoe
I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.
— Willem Dafoe
When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.
— Willem Dafoe
On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.
— Hendrik Willem Van Loon
History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward
— Hendrik Willem Van Loon
I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.
— Willem Dafoe
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
— Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Here in the Netherlands there are towns that take part in the throwing of toilet bowls for a laugh.
— Willem-Alexander, Prince Of Orange
An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.
— Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Emotionally men and women are different, but only as a result of the physical differences. It all comes back to our bodies.
— Willem Dafoe
Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.
— Frederik Willem De Klerk
Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.
— Reinout Willem Van Bemmelen
I love you this much in whole world,' Curtis said, throwing his chubby arms out wide. Willem grinned, wishing all love was so easy to find.
— Andy Frankham-Allen
Willem tsk-tsks. You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.
— Gayle Forman
I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.
— Willem Dafoe
There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
— Willem Dafoe
Presently the newly awakened psychology will gradually accomplish what pure religious devotion might have done: throw out Paul, and let Jesus in!
— Jan Willem Kaiser
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
— Willem De Kooning
Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.
— Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Willem Dafoe is a shithead.
— Doug Benson
Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.
— Willem Dafoe
I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate.
— Willem Dafoe
Life means progress, and progress means suffering.
— Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.
— Willem De Kooning
I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker.
— Willem Dafoe
My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself.
— Gayle Forman
The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
— Willem 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
(The sight of her bare feet. What this is doing to Willem's blood pressure. She might as well have taken off all her clothes.)
— Gayle Forman
If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
— Willem De Kooning
Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.
— Willem Dafoe
A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.
— Hendrik Willem Van Loon
I was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!
— Willem Dafoe
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
— Hendrik Willem Van Loon
I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
— Willem De Kooning
I think back story can help guide your choices, but when you're playing a scene, you're not making choices; you're just intuitive.
— Willem Dafoe
I have no doubt that if I met Bob Dylan, it would be disappointing - and annoying to him. But that's why I like Bob Dylan.
— Willem Dafoe
Gracie, you are exactly where you are supposed to be and everything is going to be all right.Willem — Lisa C. Temple
I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
— Willem De Kooning
It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.
— Hendrik Willem Van Loon
