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. Writing has been sewn into my soul and I'm afraid my thoughts have no choice but to be the truth to the story and my hand the connection between the pen and paper. With every word written, my heart finds its beat and inspiration fuels the desire to fulfill this need.

Amber M. Royse

#6. A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

Elaine De Kooning

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. I don't think I've ever had a real fashion disaster.

Clive Owen

#10. I will take this gamble and perhaps kill those people in the process. I will kill those people who can make me smile and feel more human than I am, I will grieve their deaths, and then I will take that gamble again. Because one city, however grand, is worth that chance.

Wildbow

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

Elaine De Kooning

#12. Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive.

Frederick Turner

#13. During the Reagan Administration, so much attention was devoted to fighting Marxism in Nicaragua and El Salvador that Washington lost sight of longer-term challenges in other countries.

Stephen Kinzer