Alex Katz Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 9 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Alex Katz.
Famous Quotes By Alex Katz
Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort. — Alex Katz
Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces. — 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
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
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
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
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
You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head. — Alex Katz