"A New York audience generally likes decorative paintings, and decorative paintings go with the couch. If you change the couch, you change the painting. And when you're coming up, and the paintings aren't first-class decoration, you're at a disadvantage for publicity and sales."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Alex Katz

#New York Quotes #Class Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
“I grew up training and showing Arabs all over the US. Three of my four were bred on my farm in Texas. Thanks everyone! Hope you'll watch tomorrow. It's going to be another great look back.”
“The coaches of some players who are my own age keep saying publically about me: "This guy is going to be one of the greats." I am clever enough to know that they do not truthfully think so. They are trying to shake my confidence. Of course, this is a matter of tactics.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.”
“I'm not gonna be perfect, but I'm gonna try stuff.”
“Be your own guide, follow your own movement.”

Source : Song: We Got Our Own Thang, Album: Big Tyme
“My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.”
“Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.”

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