Top 22 Alex Katz Quotes
#1. Maine likes to call itself 'America's Vacationland.' For many artists, though, it's the office. Since the 19th century, painters from all over the country - including Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, John Marin, Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver and Andrew Wyeth - have spent large chunks of time there.
Terry Teachout
#2. It's Sunday, yesterday was Saturday, before Saturday was Friday 3.18.2016 - I'm 16 and soon I will be 17, the times flies. We can't stop it, but we can be wise and use it in clever way!
Deyth Banger
#3. Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.
Alex Katz
#4. Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.
Alex Katz
#5. The Americans are an extremely interesting people. They are absolutely reasonable. I think that is their distinguishing characteristic ... I assure you there is no nonsense about the Americans.
Oscar Wilde
#6. Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.
Stanley Baldwin
#7. When the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.
Barbara Kingsolver
#8. Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. People too often forget that these things are profoundly compatible; that in a beautiful work of imagination the natural should be ideal, and the ideal natural.
August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
#9. You cannot make progress with excuses.
Cam Newton
#10. 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 is that the mind fills in what's missing ... Painting is a way of making you see what I saw.
Alex Katz
#11. Patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives, and the most common pattern is the circle.
Dean Koontz
#12. The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.
David Tepper
#13. Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.
Alex Katz
#14. Paint faster than you can think.
Alex Katz
#15. Most important, for openers, work six hours a day, seven days a week for six years. Then if you like it you can get serious about it.
Alex Katz
#16. As soon as he seized happiness it dispersed and reappeared somewhere else. Like Fillory, like everything good, it never lasted. What a terrible thing to know.
Lev Grossman
#17. I don't read reviews, as a rule. I can't, because I can't control myself. But I've heard that [the Duplasses] were happy, so that's good.
Amanda Peet
#18. I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I think that's what I'm doing through music. It's not about 'I'm from here and you're from there.' It's about unity.
Ricky Martin
#19. If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.
Alex Katz
#20. 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
#21. You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.
Alex Katz
