Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
More Quotes from Willem de Kooning:
If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.Willem de Kooning
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
Willem de Kooning
I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
Willem de Kooning
I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
Willem de Kooning
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Willem de Kooning
In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
Willem de Kooning
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