I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
Interpretation
The distinction between creation and classification highlights the subjective nature of art.
Willem De Kooning's quote reflects the idea that the act of creating visual work is separate from the interpretation that follows. It emphasizes the subjective nature of art, suggesting that what one person considers a picture or piece of work can only be defined as art by someone else's perspective. This dichotomy invites reflection on the role of the artist and the audience in the appreciation and definition of art.
In practice
During an art class, to inspire students about the subjective nature of art.
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.
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.
Art should not have to be a certain way.
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, or one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is. As a composer I make my music through Deep Listening
Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.
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