71 Quotes by Willem De Kooning

In art one idea is as good as another.

The past does not influence me; I influence it.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

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

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

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

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

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

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.