Elaine De Kooning Inspirational Quotes (5)

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.

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

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.

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

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.