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Work Quotes by Chuck Close
- I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the…
- I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
- I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.
- It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
- Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of…
- Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the…
- Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
- Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and…
- All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to…
- Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not,…
- I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really…
- All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.
- There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
- Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the…
- Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of…
- The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for…
- Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so…
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- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon