Alex Katz Quotes

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

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• I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Way
  • Person
  • English

• I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Work
  • Focus
  • Voice

• Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Light
  • Nobody
  • Italy

• Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Most
  • India
  • Partners

• I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Same

• My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Sports

• I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Admit

• I feel that for the story of 'Romeo and Juliet' to be impactful, it has to be believable, and there has to be a certain level of chemistry between the two characters.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Feel
  • Story
  • Chemistry

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Art
  • Unique
  • Greatness

• The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Writing
  • Yourself
  • Movies

• It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Work
  • Constitution
  • April

• I have a lot of good role models in my family for things off the court - like my older sister, who's a lawyer. I don't like writing papers, but she's helped me a lot. It's nice to have an art and business background because they tie together perfectly.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Family

• We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Women
  • Literature
  • See

• When you win a Grammy... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Why

• The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Pretty
  • Fight
  • Honest

• The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life. . . The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Life
  • Education

• Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Song
  • Way
  • Questions

• Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Life Situation

• We have tons of live performances that we're putting on there. We have music videos. There's a music video for the song called I Am Jesus what is one of the funniest music videos, like we just could not find a place for it in the movie, but it's like crazy funny. And we have the whole video.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Song
  • Crazy
  • Jesus

• I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Hair
  • Head
  • Sparrows

• You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

  

  Alex Katz
  • Ideas
  • Painting
  • Head