My mother thought I would have a hard life as a painter. My father thought the highest thing a person could be was an architect. Below that was a painter. So he thought it was much better than being, say, a doctor.
What's in front of me is what's most interesting. - Alex Katz
What's in front of me is what's most interesting.
- Alex Katz
What makes everything one is the style. - Alex Katz
What makes everything one is the style.
If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff. - Alex Katz
If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff.
Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way. - Alex Katz
Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.
You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse. - Alex Katz
You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.
Realist painting has to do with leaving out a lot of detail. I think my painting can be a little shocking in all that it leaves out. But what happens… - Alex Katz
Realist painting has to do with leaving out a lot of detail. I think my painting can be a little shocking in all that it leaves out. But what happens…
Paint faster than you can think. - Alex Katz
Paint faster than you can think.
I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out. - Alex Katz
I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.
Actually, you want to go into an area where you're frightened. Otherwise, you're just going to be repainting beautiful paintings, but a little duller… - Alex Katz
Actually, you want to go into an area where you're frightened. Otherwise, you're just going to be repainting beautiful paintings, but a little duller…
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