Alex Katz Quotes
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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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
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I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scared of me. That's just kind of the nature of who I am as a person and player. But I also know that you have to be emotional. You have to be in touch with your feelings. I think that's important.
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To get scared is something not in my personality.
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
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People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can't live with hatred inside of me. That's what I learned. I ain't scared of dying, either.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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Paint the essential character of things.
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Every time I got to play a show, even if it's already sold out, I'm so scared no one's going to come.
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I can say I'm a little scared of racing. It brings back memories, of course. But it's nothing I can't handle.
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I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.
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I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.
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When I'm lost in the rain, In your eyes I know I'll find the light to light my way And when I'm scared, losing ground When my world is going crazy You can turn it all around and when I'm down you're there Pushing me to the top You're always there, giving me all you've got
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My father lead by fear. I did what my father said ‘cause I was scared of getting my ass beat. His voice rang so vividly in my head. That it was just…a fear.
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We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to be scattered by our light. If Satan cloaks himself as an angel of white, intent on deceiving the world, any attempt on our parts to minimize evil is only complicit with his strategy... Turn to the light; don’t fear the shadows it creates.
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I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.
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I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, leaving at sixteen to work. That was in the year 2056. AS 127, if you use the Scion calendar.
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The writing of You've Got a Friend was one of the most incredible experiences because it was mostly inspiration. It just came to me almost as we hear it.
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But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.
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If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.
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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.
