71 Quotes by Willem De Kooning

The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history..

the word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers ... one of their spotlights that they have particularly focussed on 'Art' ... (abstraction was) not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.

You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.

I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting

And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to a movement for each person and open for everybody.

Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.

Content is a glimpse.

An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it...