"My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings."

-- Richard Diebenkorn

“Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!”
“Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?”
“When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.”
“Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Chuck Close" by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.”
“In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ... we can no longer hope to save everything, but ... we can at least try to save lives, so that some kind of future, if perhaps not the ideal one, will remain possible.”
“Where there is no peace, prayers are not heard.”
“I have a surfboard that says 'Linda Hunt Choice TV Actress: Action.' I am an action star! I don't know what that is about, but I like it.”

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