Willem de Kooning Quotes

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.

Willem de Kooning

• Thinking
• Sometimes
• Lying
• Desperation

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• 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.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Lying