Skip to content

The texture of experience is prior to everything else.

— Willem de Kooning

Another quote →

Notes from Wikiquote

1948, in the period of making his painting 'Excavation'

More quotes by Willem de Kooning

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history..

Willem de Kooning (1969)

For really, when you think of all the life and death problems in the art of the Renaissance, who cares if a Chevalier is laughing or that a young girl has a red blouse on.

The Renaissance and Order (1950)

Jackson has broken the ice for us.

It is disastrous to name ourselves.

And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp — for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to — a movement for each person and open for everybody.

A Brief History of American Culture (1996)

All Willem de Kooning quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Willem de Kooning (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.