Phrase by 'Willem de Kooning'

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I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Author: Willem de Kooning - American Artist
  Live , Paint


The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Author: Willem de Kooning - American Artist
  Your , Time , Trouble , Poor


An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Author: Willem de Kooning - American Artist
  Will , Art , Free , Artist


Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Author: Willem de Kooning - American Artist
  Feelings , Artist , Whatever , Historical


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.

Author: Willem de Kooning - American Artist
  Myself , Sometimes , Thinking , Way


The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

Author: Willem de Kooning - American Artist
  View , Nature , Hope , Attitude


Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

Author: Willem de Kooning - American Artist
  Always , Style , Behind , Fraud


I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Author: Willem de Kooning - American Artist


Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

Author: Willem de Kooning - American Artist
  Me , Never , Art , Peaceful


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