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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When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Limelight in New York, and I would see people and be able to freeze them with a look. People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.
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I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like 'Glee'.
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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.
