Elaine De Kooning Quotes
I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
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.
Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.
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.
