You know the real world, this so-called real world, is just something you put up with. Like everybody else. I'm in my element when I am a little bit out of this world. Then I'm in the real world – I'm on the beam. Because when I'm falling, I'm doing all right. When I'm slipping, I say: he, this is interesting. It's when I'm standing upright that bothers me.


Film script Sketchbook 1, Time inc; 1960.

Willem de Kooning Quotes

You know the real world, this so-called real world, is just something you put up with. Like everybody else. I'm in my element when I am a little bit...

You know the real world, this so-called real world, is just something you put up with. Like everybody else. I'm in my element when I am a little bit...

You know the real world, this so-called real world, is just something you put up with. Like everybody else. I'm in my element when I am a little bit...

You know the real world, this so-called real world, is just something you put up with. Like everybody else. I'm in my element when I am a little bit...