"Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble."

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Source : "Chuck Close: 'Important Works on Paper'". Interview with Stephanie Wright Hession, www.sfgate.com. September 4, 2013.

Chuck Close

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“People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.”

Source : "Jobs fight: Haves vs. the have-nots". Interview with Tim Mullaney, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 16, 2012.
“Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.”

Source : Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.128, Routledge
“If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. Its not clear how they will do it, but it never is.”
“There's a cancer on the presidency.”

Source : "The Hearings End Much as They Began" by David Maraniss, www.washingtonpost.com. June 19, 1996.
“DSM-IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific documentâ€¦ DSM-IV has become a bible and a money making bestsellerâ€”its major failings notwithstanding.”
“It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.”
“One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.”
“Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings, even to animals. This kindness, this mercy, this charity - greater than any doctrine - are what Buddhism left to us.”

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