Kooning Painting Quotes & Sayings

It doesn't matter who's directing, or who's doing the movie; there are a ton of things that can go wrong, and they do all the time. So you just have to figure out how to get through it, and then how the director finally puts it together, and then see what the audience takes from it. That's the most important thing to me. — Rutger Hauer

I made my first trip west of the Hudson and it was a revelation. The naked musculature of the Rockies was overpowering and my painting responded. — Elaine De Kooning

I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting — Willem De Kooning

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again. — Willem De Kooning

I'd like to move back to New Orleans. — Harry Connick Jr.

You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them. — Chris Patten

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down. — Bill Gates

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute. — Willem De Kooning

I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea. — Willem De Kooning

When you smile it takes up half your face.'
'Simon!' she exclaimed. 'That sounds horrible.'
'It's enchanting.'
'Distorted.'
'Desirable. — Julia Quinn

The countryside stretched green and alive from her perch on the hill....She breathed in the air of a free woman and marveled at how her clarity of spirit even seemed to affect her vision. Brighter colors. Fresher air. — Pepper D. Basham

Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence. — Dalai Lama

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'. — Igor Stravinsky

I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity. — Willem De Kooning

Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know. — Willem De Kooning

A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image. — Elaine De Kooning

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape. — Willem De Kooning

I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind. — Ozzy Osbourne

I spent your Wish on that doucheface," I said into his chest.
"Hazel Grace. No. I will grant you that you did spend my one and only Wish, but you did not spend it on him. You spent it on us. — John Green

Blessed the one who continually humbles himself willingly; he will be crowned by the One who willingly humbled himself for our sake. — Ephrem The Syrian

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented — Willem De Kooning

I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down! — Flavor Flav

I don't want to think too much about art, you see. I don't want to attend symposia, listen to papers, or discuss it at cocktail parties ... What I want to do is clutch my heart and fall down when I see it. (Mr. Nannuzzi to Edgar) — Stephen King

Pain is inevitable, but misery is a choice, — Catherine Leggitt