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Elaine de Kooning Quotes

American painter and academic (d. 1989), Birth: 12-3-1918, Death: 1-2-1989
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Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, everything is grist for the mill. Artists are like cockroaches; we can't be stamped out.
Elaine de Kooning

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I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.
Elaine de Kooning

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

4.
Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.
Elaine de Kooning

5.
For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, streaming, whirling; the gestures of light flowing or spurting through color. I see everything as possessing or possessed by gesture. I've often thought of my paintings as having an axis around which everything revolves.
Elaine de Kooning

Similar Authors: Winston Churchill Francis Bacon John Ruskin Leonardo da Vinci James Madison William Blake Henry Miller Pablo Picasso Vincent Van Gogh Ludwig Wittgenstein Anne Sexton Andy Warhol Alan Moore Dallas Willard Leo Buscaglia
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Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.
Elaine de Kooning

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Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.
Elaine de Kooning

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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

Quote Topics by Elaine de Kooning: Artist Cockroaches Space Firsts Light Art Verbs Hard Ideas Style Isolation Naked Color Taken Nouns Indispensable Events Inspiration Children Mills Character Creative West
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Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.
Elaine de Kooning