What did Willem de Kooning mean by: I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute. - Willem de Kooning Painter · Netherlands Copy
+ If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are – that is all the space I need as a painter. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Willem de Kooning, Arms, 0 - Willem de Kooning Painter · Netherlands
+ The past does not influence me; I influence it. Feraz Zeid, June 30, 2023December 12, 2023, Willem de Kooning, Motivational, Past, 0 - Willem de Kooning Painter · Netherlands
+ An artist is someone who makes art… He didn’t invent it. Feraz Zeid, November 4, 2023December 26, 2023, Willem de Kooning, Art, Artist, 0 - Willem de Kooning Painter · Netherlands
+ Even abstract shapes must have a likeness Feraz Zeid, August 25, 2023December 24, 2023, Willem de Kooning, Abstract, Shapes, 0 - Willem de Kooning Painter · Netherlands
+ You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Willem de Kooning, Die, Edges, 0 - Willem de Kooning Painter · Netherlands
+ The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Willem de Kooning, Poverty, Time, Trouble, 0 - Willem de Kooning Painter · Netherlands
+ I don’t paint to live, I live to paint. Feraz Zeid, August 21, 2023December 12, 2023, Willem de Kooning, Art, Paint, Passion, 0 - Willem de Kooning Painter · Netherlands
+ I’d like to get all the colors in the world into one painting Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Willem de Kooning, Color, Painting, 0 - Willem de Kooning Painter · Netherlands
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
