Kooning

Famous quotes containing the word kooning:

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

“The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.”
—Willem De Kooning (b. 1904)

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