“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
“My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.” ThinkingWayI CanSometimesLyingCoursesInterestActivityAbstractDesperateDesperationAbstract Thinking Book:Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute Source: Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute
“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.” IfsWayLongI CanIdeasMatterPainSpaceFiguresMinesPaintingIntegrityDramaHorsePaintIntensityBecause I CanAnger Love 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
