Chuck Close Quotes

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

Chuck Close

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• Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Game
  • Sports
  • Be Patient

• Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Think
  • Trust
  • Brain

• I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

  

  Oliver North
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Playing
  • Percent
  • Spend

• When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Want
  • Me
  • Comedy

• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • High
  • Song
  • Location

• In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Peace

• 'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
  • Wrong
  • Documentary

• As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Rest
  • California
  • Nation

• You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Black

• My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.

  

  Olly Murs
  • School
  • Money
  • Dad

• The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Art
  • Kitchen

• Managers are the most creative people in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • World
  • Creative

• Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dark
  • Never
  • Influence

• The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Time
  • Real
  • Documentary

• People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Follow
  • Super

• As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy
  • History

• There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • Painting
  • Sky

• But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Goal
  • Painting
  • Ultimate

• It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Great
  • Together
  • Band

• There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it.

  

  Rosecrans Baldwin
  • Syndrome
  • Paris
  • Miss

• Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Painting
  • Frozen