You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head. — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort. — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
The abstract expressionists had that thing of, subject matter becomes content, content becomes form. And I always thought there was no room… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
Picasso and Matisse were the guys I wanted to get away from, and cubism is all still lifes. Their paintings are all… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
My mother thought I would have a hard life as a painter. My father thought the highest thing a person could be… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse. — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
Realist painting has to do with leaving out a lot of detail. I think my painting can be a little shocking in… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
Actually, you want to go into an area where you're frightened. Otherwise, you're just going to be repainting beautiful paintings, but a… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces. — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
A New York audience generally likes decorative paintings, and decorative paintings go with the couch. If you change the couch, you change… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head. — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort. — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way. — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
