“The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn't go on. It did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light - all this silly talk about line, colour and form - because that was the thing I wanted to get hold of.” LightAgeWantedFormCertainLinesOne ThingGoes OnFemaleStuckSillyColourIdolsCompositionArrangements Book:De Kooning: a centennial exhibition Source: De Kooning: a centennial exhibition
“Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy.” MenHomeBodyFormNightSpaceLateRainPrisonMiseryHeavyBonesHungryPrivate Prisons Author:Willem de Kooning
“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.” WayI CanIdeasEyePainFormLinesSpaceEmotionFiguresDesignColorPaintingDramaHorsePaintNot InterestedReducingBecause I CanLove Pain Author: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.” LittlesSaidI CanFormFixed Author:Willem de Kooning
