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.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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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.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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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.
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If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.
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Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
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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.
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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.
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So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.
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Every season I am inspired by women.
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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.
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A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.
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See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.
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After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
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When I'm done with all of this, I'm going to write a book on it: have a guide to having a life and being on the road. Especially having a family and being on the road.
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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.
