Amateur Quote by Chuck Close Download Open image ““Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.”” — Chuck Close ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amateur Amateurs Amateurs Look Diligence Inspiration Just Work Look Inspiration Work
“I always thought that inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.” — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“Inspiration is for amateurs,” Close says. “The rest of us just show up and get to work.” — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
“Inspiration is for amateurs--the rest of us just show up and get to work. - Chuck Close” — Joe Fig Copy Share Image
“Inspiration is already here, waiting for you to turn around and look at it.” — Matthew Krause Copy Share Image
“Maybe you were the inspiration, but inspiration is an excuse for doing something you already want to do.” — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
“I choose to trust that inspiration is always nearby, the whole time I'm working, trying its damnedest to impart assistance. [...] Sometimes we have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
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… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I absolutely hate technology, and I'm computer illiterate, and I never use any labor-saving devices although I'm not convinced that a computer is a… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“The amateur doesn't appreciate the need for experimentation. He wants his experts to know.” — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do… — James Agate Copy Share Image
My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
“The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.” — Alan Sheinwald Copy Share Image
I think most amateurs dread playing a 180-plus-yard par 3 even more than a hard par 4. Part of it is psychological: You think… — Ernie Els Copy Share Image
I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective. — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Most amateurs are so worried about mis-hitting the shot or hitting it off line, they don't make an aggressive move. You'd be surprised how… — Keegan Bradley Copy Share Image
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