Best 10 quotes of Wanda Koop on MyQuotes

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.

It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

The light in the North is constantly a thrill for me.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.