Kooning

Famous quotes containing the word kooning:

“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.”
—Willem De Kooning (b. 1904)

“An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.”
—Willem De Kooning (b. 1904)

“Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.”
—Willem De Kooning (b. 1904)