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.
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.
- 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… - 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…
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.
What's in front of me is what's most interesting. - Alex Katz
What's in front of me is what's most interesting.
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.
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.
What makes everything one is the style. - Alex Katz
What makes everything one is the style.
Paint faster than you can think. - Alex Katz
Paint faster than you can think.
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…
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