Willem de Kooning Quotes

I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

Willem de Kooning

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• I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Instrument

• Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Character
  • Genes

• I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.

  

  Xavi
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • School
  • High
  • Culture

• The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Different
  • Contribution

• Be who you are and be that well.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • You
  • Well
  • Who

• Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Home
  • City
  • Internet

• Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Yourself

• Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Day
  • Taken
  • Boy

• I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Great
  • Light
  • Forever

• If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Done
  • You
  • Muse

• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

  

  Gary Busey
  • You
  • Short
  • Take

• The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Career
  • Dream

• Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Taken

• There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Wish
  • Always
  • Three

• Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • People
  • Trying
  • Home

• I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Doing

• The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Health
  • Care
  • Physician

• In that year 1865 John Muir offered to buy from his brother … a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his youth. His brother declined to part with the land, but he could not suppress the idea: 1865 still stands in Wisconsin history as the birth-year of mercy for things natural, wild, and free.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • History
  • Free
  • Brother

• I will work hard at the federal level to defend our progress on climate change, but we know that forward progress on climate must happen locally.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Work
  • Progress

• I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Done

• 'Elle' is such an iconic magazine, and the intersection of fashion and music has always been something that fascinates me.

  

  Aubrie Sellers
  • Music
  • Fashion

• If we called it aioli, does that make it sexier? It's aioli. I called it Donkey Sauce because you have to make fun of it.

  

  Guy Fieri
  • Fun
  • Sexier

• I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Long
  • Pain
  • Drama