Alex Katz Quotes

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

Alex Katz

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• I don't like the blame game, though.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Game
  • Like
  • Blame

• Modesty is my best quality.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Best
  • Quality
  • Modesty

• Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Faith
  • Belief
  • Build

• I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Done
  • Day

• If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • House
  • Go
  • Out

• Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Character
  • Doing
  • Looking

• You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • You
  • Feeling
  • Feel

• Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Myself

• It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Better
  • Gold

• When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Like
  • Woman
  • Feel

• So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Better
  • Pen
  • You Can Do It

• Every season I am inspired by women.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Women
  • Inspired
  • Season

• There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist, except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Unique

• A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Society
  • Law

• See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

  

  Eminem
  • Day
  • Poet
  • Modern

• Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • May
  • Soul
  • Pretty

• People think God is a man. People think God has got ears, nose, teeth and he rises daily in the morning, brushes his teeth and washes his mouth. And he is an old man and he has a beard. All these things people think. But no, God is energy. God is perfect and pure energy.

  

  Prem Rawat
  • People
  • God
  • Energy

• In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Together
  • Education

• For good is simple, evil manifold.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Evil

• As a producer Big Little Lies is the stories of women that I know, and it was a way in which we could go to other women and say, "Here's a great role. There's five great roles here. They're all complicated. They all deserve to be told, and are you interested?" And that is rare.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Deserve
  • Complicated
  • Producer

• Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.

  

  Daniel Schacter
  • Past
  • Simple
  • Feelings

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

  

  Alex Katz
  • Simple
  • Image
  • Complicated