Chuck Close Quotes
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.Chuck Close
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
Vince Vaughn -
I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
Salma Hayek -
Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
Federico Garcia Lorca -
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson -
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
M. Scott Peck
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
Ice T -
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso -
As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
Patrick Rothfuss -
We always make music and continue to make hits.
Quavo Migos -
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
Jack Bowman -
I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
Yoko Ono -
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
Camille Paglia -
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso -
For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.
Rachel Kushner -
One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything.
T. C. Boyle
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Everyone should dance more. Everyone should walk more.
Keri Russell -
History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
Quavo Migos -
First you harmonize, then you customize.
Wilson Pickett -
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
Chuck Close