de Kooning, Willem Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Who Gets to Call It Art?

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Robert Rauschenberg: Man at Work

  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Seven Portraits

  1983, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen De kooning on de kooning

  1982, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Painters Painting

  1973, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Willem de Kooning:

"Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists."

"Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things -- the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by."

"An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will."

"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."

"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."

"I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art."

"If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today."

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

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

"I don't paint to live, I live to paint."

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

"Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure."