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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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 think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
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They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style.
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One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.
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Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested in the picture book section anymore. It's filled with moms, strollers, and unbalanced toddlers.
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Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.
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I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.
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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.
