Chuck Close Quotes
I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.
Chuck Close
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
Orison Swett Marden
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
Ward McAllister
I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
Iman
If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.
Yvonne Strahovski
As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
Samuel Barber
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
Madhur Bhandarkar
We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
Vicki Lawrence
Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
Rachel Kushner
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
J. M. Coetzee
It's good to get out there and kind of move the body around a little bit, play some hockey, enjoy Nashville as a city and spend some time with family and friends.
Patrick Kane
It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
Dale Dauten
Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
Edmund Leach
I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
Daniel Clowes
I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.
Peter Garrett
Midnight Oil
The best job a man could have would be a chef. They'd understand the long hours I work and the drive and ambition it takes to succeed.
Meghan Markle
I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.
Billy Collins
I have a new book coming out, so I do movie, book, movie, book, movie, book, every place we go.
Adriana Trigiani
I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.
Chuck Close
