--- title: "1 Takes Days Quotes By Alex Katz" description: "1 Takes Days quotes by Alex Katz. Plus more from Alex Katz and more Takes Days sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/392/alex-katz-25578_clear_sometimes-it-takes-me-days-or-weeks-to-g_1243305.png" --- > [Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. One thing leads to another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-katz/sometimes-it-takes-me-days-or-weeks-to-get-something-clear-in-my-head/) [Alex Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-katz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/392/alex-katz-25578_clear_sometimes-it-takes-me-days-or-weeks-to-g_1243305.png) ## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-katz/you-have-to-find-what-your-temperament-is-like-and-live-around-it-i/) [Alex Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-katz/if-you-re-going-to-go-for-it-you-have-a-common-thing-you-share-with/) [Alex Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-katz/) > [You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-katz/you-usually-want-to-get-something-out-of-a-painting-other-than-the/) [Alex Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-katz/i-know-people-can-be-a-little-nervous-about-swimsuits-but-have-some/) [Alex Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-katz/i-like-to-make-an-image-that-is-so-simple-you-can-t-avoid-it-and-so/) [Alex Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-katz/) > [Paint faster than you can think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-katz/paint-faster-than-you-can-think/) [Alex Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-katz/) > [Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-katz/make-a-painting-you-can-work-on-for-a-long-period-and-make-it-look/) [Alex Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-katz/i-use-the-iphone-now-for-information-but-with-selfies-i-don-t-know/) [Alex Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-katz/sometimes-it-takes-me-days-or-weeks-to-get-something-clear-in-my-head/) [Alex Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-katz/) > [What makes everything one is the style.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-katz/what-makes-everything-one-is-the-style/) [Alex Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-katz/) > [Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-katz/part-of-what-im-about-is-seeing-how-i-can-paint-the-same-thing/) [Alex Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-katz/the-abstract-expressionists-had-that-thing-of-subject-matter-becomes/) [Alex Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-katz/picasso-and-matisse-were-the-guys-i-wanted-to-get-away-from-and/) [Alex Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-katz/my-mother-thought-i-would-have-a-hard-life-as-a-painter-my-father/) [Alex Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-katz/) > [You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-katz/you-have-to-be-a-little-scared-of-what-you-re-doing-otherwise-you/) [Alex Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-katz/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/takes-days/alex-katz/#itemlist", "name": "1 Takes Days Quotes By Alex Katz", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. 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