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Alex Katz Biography

Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints. He is represented by numerous galleries internationally.

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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.

Hours, Important, Six, Week, Years

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

Business, Masters, Men, Old, Paint, Painting

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

Complicated, Figures, Image, Like, Make, Simple

The abstract expressionists had that thing of, subject matter becomes content, content becomes form. And I always thought there was no room for style. I felt with my painting, the style really is the content. The style holds everything together.

Expressionists, Holds, Matter, Style, Thought, Together

Most contemporary artists are behind the bubble in time. They're making videos that are so incredibly boring compared to a good movie. Or they're making work where I say, "You realize minimal art is 50 or 60 years old?" That's what I tell people to shock them. They just blanch.

Art, People, Realize, Tell, Years

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

Believe, Down, Fun, Nervous, People, Wear

If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff.

Doing You, Dull, Know, Stuff

Paint faster than you can think.

Faster, Paint, Think, Thinking

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.

Days, Leads, Sometimes, Steps, Want, Weeks

What makes everything one is the style.

Everything, Style

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

Head, Ideas, Painting, Want

You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.

Littles, Masterpiece, Paint, Same, Scared, Worse

A New York audience generally likes decorative paintings, and decorative paintings go with the couch. If you change the couch, you change the painting. And when you're coming up, and the paintings aren't first-class decoration, you're at a disadvantage for publicity and sales.

Class, Couch, Decorative, Likes, New York

My mother thought I would have a hard life as a painter. My father thought the highest thing a person could be was an architect. Below that was a painter. So he thought it was much better than being, say, a doctor.

Doctor, Doctors, Father, Mother, Say

Picasso and Matisse were the guys I wanted to get away from, and cubism is all still lifes. Their paintings are all closed drawings. And still life is a perfect form for that. By the mid-'50s, I sort of dropped the still life. The large picture was a way of getting around them, too. The abstract expressionists were also into the large form because it was a way of getting around Matisse and Picasso. Picasso can't paint big paintings. Matisse didn't bother after a certain point.

Closed, Drawing, Guy, Guys, Large, Perfect

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