Artist Quotes by Alex Katz

You have to find what your temperament is like and live around it. I find I work really well off the top of my…

— 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…

— Alex Katz

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

— Alex Katz

I know people can be a little nervous about swimsuits, but have some fun with it. Believe you can hold it down. If you…

— 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

Paint faster than you can think.

— 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

I use the iPhone now for information. But with selfies, I don't know what those people are doing. It's like they believe what they…

— Alex Katz

Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps.…

— 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

The abstract expressionists had that thing of, subject matter becomes content, content becomes form. And I always thought there was no room for style.…

— Alex Katz

Picasso and Matisse were the guys I wanted to get away from, and cubism is all still lifes. Their paintings are all closed drawings.…

— Alex Katz

My mother thought I would have a hard life as a painter. My father thought the highest thing a person could be was an…

— 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