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

—  Elaine de Kooning

as quoted in "It is", No.4, Autumn, 1959 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79463183&referer=brief_results Magazine for Abstract Art, Second Half Publishing Co., New York pp. 29,30
1950 - 1971

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