Skip to content

Hours Quote by Alex Katz

“Most important, for openers, work six hours a day, seven…” quote by Alex Katz — Download Open image

“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.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Hours Ifs Important Serious Seven Seven days Six Week Years You like it

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…

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…

Image

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

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…

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.

Image

Paint faster than you can think.

Image

Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.

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…

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.…

Image

What makes everything one is the style.

Image

Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

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.…

Image

Explore all 23 Alex Katz quotes

More Hours quotes

When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad…

Image

He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought.

Image

In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there…

Frederick Buechner

Image

Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be…

Image

I didn't understand Southland Tales script at all! Is there a single word to describe it? Cacophony? It's celebrity meets pornography meets politics -…

Image

And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler…

Douglas Coupland

Image

Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live…

Simen Agdestein

Image

In the name of Jerusalem. If I forget the extermination of the Jews, may my right hand wither, may my tongue stick to my…

Image

Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while…

Image

Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only…

Image

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play…

Image

I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really…

Image

Browse all 8,987 Hours quotes