"Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place."

-- Chuck Close

#Portraits Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Recognition Quotes

“This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from which to lift off, the one immediately recognizable place to point to when asked what was wrong with my life. Everything led to it, everything receded from it--my face as personal vanishing point.”

Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.”
“Music is one of my greatest loves. I don't think I would be able to live without music in my life.”

Source : FaceBook post by Naya Rivera from Apr 12, 2013
“I've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals, writing songs about my stuffed animals, starting an a capella group with my cousins while on vacation, or awkwardly singing along to karaoke tracks alone in my bedroom - singing always found a way into my life.”
“What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are.”

Source : "How to Be a Woman". Book by Caitlin Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.
“That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.”

Source : George Boole (1854). “An Investigation of the Laws of Thought: On which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities”, p.24
“I hate the idea that cooking should be a celebration or a party.”

Source : "Cooking Isn’t Creative, and It Isn’t Easy". Interview with Alex Halberstadt, www.nytimes.com. October 11, 2012.
“I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.”

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