Chuck Close Quotes
Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.
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I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!
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I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
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The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.
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I never read about photography.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
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I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
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I'm not fashionable, and I know nothing about fashion, but I have my individual style, and style is eternal.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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I had really no sense of style. Everyone around me in my family had the sense of style - I learned as much as I possibly could.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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It comes down to personal style, and that's what's sexy and attractive in a man.
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It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.
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Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.
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You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
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It's fun to be an actor and dress up, but I'm happy being me and just loving accepting my personal style.
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I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.
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When I found photography, I found this other kind of portraiture of black families and black people who were photographing themselves or having themselves photographed in ways they wanted to be seen.
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It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.
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I think a big part of my job is to make an atmosphere on set and have an attitude that it's about experimentation, and you can't do anything wrong. It's not about judgment, it's not about me kicking over a chair and storming onto set and acting stuff out and telling people to copy what I do. That is a style of directing some people have, but I don't understand it.
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All you must do is accept all that is unacceptable to you.
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Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.
