Alex Katz (b. 1927)

"The optical element is the most important thing to me. That the paintings actually have to do with seeing. It has to do not with what it means but how it appears” (A. Katz, quoted in M. Brehm, Alex Katz, exh. cat., Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Torino, 1999, p. 44)