Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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A New York audience generally likes decorative paintings, and decorative paintings go with the couch. If you change the couch, you change the painting. And when you're coming up, and the paintings aren't first-class decoration, you're at a disadvantage for publicity and sales.

Alex Katz's Popular Quotes

What's in front of me is what's most interesting.

- Alex Katz

What makes everything one is the style.

- Alex Katz

Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

- Alex Katz

If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff.

- Alex Katz

Paint faster than you can think.

- Alex Katz

You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.

- 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…

- 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