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
-
I don't like the blame game, though.
-
Modesty is my best quality.
-
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.
-
It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
-
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.
-
If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.
-
You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
-
Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to 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.
-
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.
-
So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.
-
Every season I am inspired by women.
-
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.
-
A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.
-
See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.
-
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
-
A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.
-
After World War II, there were a lot of pension funds in Europe that were fully funded, but they were pressured to hold a lot of government debt. There was a lot of inflation, and the value of all those assets fell. Those pension funds couldn't honor their promises to the people.
-
Not even a hand-stitched suit could hide a body gone ruinously to seed. I was tempted to offer some fashion advice, but I didn't think he'd welcome the news that this year, bellies are being worn inside the trousers.
-
Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.
-
A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.
-
To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do
-
Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the other, that's very complicated.
-
I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.
