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Willem de Kooning Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“The past does not influence me; I influence it.”
— Willem de Kooning, History of Experimental Music in the United States
Tagged: Self-appreciation, Past, influence
“There is a train track in the history of art that goes way back to Mesopotamia. It skips the whole Orient, the Mayas and American Indians. Duchamp is on it. Cézanne is on it. Picasso and the Cubists are on it; Giacometti, Mondrian and so many, many more – whole civilizations.”
— Willem de Kooning, The Renaissance and Order
Tagged: Painters on Painting
“I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting. I paint this way because I can keep putting in more and more things in it: drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space.”
— Willem de Kooning, De Kooning: An American Master
Tagged: Painters on Painting
“I don't think painters have particularly bright ideas.

[What do they have?]

I guess their talent of painting things.”
— Willem de Kooning, Painters Painting
Tagged: Abstract Expressionism, Painters on Painting
“Everything that passes me I can see only a little of, but I am always looking. And I see an awful lot sometimes.”
— Willem de Kooning, What Abstract Art Means to Me
Tagged: Abstract Expressionism, Painters on Painting
“I noticed when I had something photographic, like a mouth it gave me a point of reference. It was something to hold onto.”
— Willem de Kooning, Painters Painting
Tagged: Abstract Expressionism, Painters on Painting
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