Willem de Kooning Quotes

Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.

Willem de Kooning

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• When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • People
  • Like
  • Hands

• Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Work
  • Hands
  • Looking

• I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Time
  • Me
  • Hands

• My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no tomorrow.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Always
  • Hands
  • Tomorrow

• The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Hands
  • Class
  • Ignorant

• I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Work
  • Hands
  • Walk

• I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Different
  • Science
  • Hands

• With the discovery of the Higgs boson, one of the questions has been ticked off the list, but there are many others. We hope that we can find answers or hints for answers to at least some of them. But of course, this is in the hands of nature.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Nature
  • Hope
  • Hands

• I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Feel
  • Hands
  • Comfortable

• The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Hands
  • Horse
  • Monday

• When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • You
  • Hands
  • Fate

• I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Believe
  • Hands
  • Wealth

• Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Hands
  • Mystery
  • Intelligence

• I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • World
  • Country
  • Hands

• Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Hands
  • Old
  • Speech

• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Heaven

• I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Hands
  • Shake
  • Standpoint

• The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Power
  • Future
  • Hands

• I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Heart
  • Chance
  • Silence

• I'm not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Respect
  • Trash
  • Talker

• I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Poetry

• One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate.

  

  E. M. Broner
  • Needs
  • Inappropriate
  • Grain Of Salt

• A hundred starlings let loose in Central Park have by now multiplied to more than two hundred million.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Starlings
  • Multiplied
  • Central Park

• Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Hands
  • Fingers
  • Pockets