8 Quotes by Alex Katz

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

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

I like to make an image that is so simple you can’t avoid it, and so complicated you can’t figure it out.

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

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.

Paint faster than you can think.

Painting seems an old man’s business. After a certain time you’re out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

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.