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When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

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Alex Katz

Realist painting has to do with leaving out a lot of detail. I think my painting can be a little shocking in all that it leaves out. But what happens is that the mind fills in what's missing. . . Painting is a way of making you see what I saw.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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