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

- Alex Katz

What makes everything one is the style.

- Alex Katz

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

- 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

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

Paint faster than you can think.

- 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