Willem de Kooning Quotes

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

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.

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.