“Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.” KnowsArtPaintingArt IsGenderOccupationPhasesMasculine Book:De Kooning: a centennial exhibition Source: De Kooning: a centennial exhibition
“I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting” WorldColorPainting Author:Willem de Kooning
“I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.” LooksMightMinutesPaintingMonths 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
“Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.” IdeasHellPaintingPainterBustedCubismCezannePollock Author:Willem de Kooning
“Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented” ReasonPaintingOilFleshReason WhyOil Painting Author:Willem de Kooning
“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
“I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.” ThinkingMayTwoTurnsPaintingLandscapePainting A Picture Author:Willem de Kooning
