Top 8 Elaine De Kooning Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.
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. A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
Elaine De Kooning
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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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