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Elaine de Kooning

Elaine de Kooning (March 12, 1918 – February 1, 1989) was an Abstract Expressionist and Figurative Expressionist painter in the post-World War II era. She wrote extensively on the art of the period and was an editorial associate for Art News magazine. On December 9, 1943, she married painter Willem de Kooning.

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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.

Art, Taken, Cockroaches, Artists, Hijacked, Mill

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

Character, Interested, Style, Work

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

Event, Events, Nouns, Primarily, Secondarily, Verbs

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.

Firsts, Hudson, Naked, Overpowering, Responded, West

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.

Gods, Hard, Indispensable, Inspiration, Work

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.

Artist, Beginning, Children, Crop, Ideas, Make

For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, streaming, whirling; the gestures of light flowing or spurting through color. I see everything as possessing or possessed by gesture. I've often thought of my paintings as having an axis around which everything revolves.

Axes, Axis, Color, Light, Space, Whirling

Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.

Artist, Cockroaches, Mills, Mill, Artists, Grist

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.

Artist, Creative, Feedback, Isolation, Know, Speak

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