Wanda Koop Quotes

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

The light in the North is constantly a thrill for me.

It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.