Willem de Kooning Quotes

An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.

Willem de Kooning

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• I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Love
  • Parents

• The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Imagination
  • Spirit
  • Critical

• I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Fascinated

• Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Always
  • Old

• Television isn't my career. Business is.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Business
  • Career
  • Television

• Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Water

• Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • Truth

• Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Men
  • Wisdom

• Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles. He saved hundreds of thousands of lives, are you going to convict Jack Bauer? Say that criminal law is against him? 'You have the right to a jury trial?' Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don't think so.'

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Law

• In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.

  

  Dawn Steel

• When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vignettes of the highlights of it - marriage, divorce, death, success, fame, loss. The up and the down and the up again.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Death

• Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

  

  Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • Alone
  • Search

• For me, taking photographs is such a tortured process. I'm always feeling like I'm not getting enough: I'm in the wrong place, the light isn't good, the subject's not comfortable.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Light

• Narrative is so rich; it's given up so much.

  

  Jim Crace
  • Up

• We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.

  

  Adolph Green
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.

  

  Martha Wainwright
  • Music
  • Kids

• It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Truth
  • Wonder

• In 'Swimming Pool,' all the colors are very warm, sunny, the pool and all that. In 'Love Crime,' everything is so cold, and it's all inside skyscrapers.

  

  Ludivine Sagnier
  • Cold
  • Pool
  • Swimming

• Americans keep telling me they hate government. I always tell them: "Man, I've got a country for you: Go to Afghanistan; they don't have one." So if you're of that ilk, yes, you can have your private paradise, but if you're comfortable with government, then go with government.

  

  Uwe Reinhardt
  • Men
  • Country
  • Hate

• Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Believe
  • Church
  • Teaches

• Never give a sucker an even break.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Never
  • Give
  • Even

• An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.

  

  Willem de Kooning