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!
Barry Humphries
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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.
Wayne McGregor
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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.
Sam Abell
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
Natalie Goldberg
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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.
Maelle Gavet
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I never read about photography.
Sally Mann
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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.
Zach Gilford
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
Zendaya
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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.
Fede Alvarez
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I'm not fashionable, and I know nothing about fashion, but I have my individual style, and style is eternal.
Vidya Balan
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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?
Walt Whitman
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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.
Caitlyn Jenner
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Yves Saint Laurent
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It comes down to personal style, and that's what's sexy and attractive in a man.
Hannah Simone
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It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.
Yigal Azrouël
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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.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
Veronica Lake
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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.
India de Beaufort
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[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).
Walead Beshty
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I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.
Lorrie Moore
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Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.
Ian Mckellen
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The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
Quintilian
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We found out that there is no substitute for human contact.
Phil Jackson
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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.
Chuck Close