"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."

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Source : "What I've Learned: Chuck Close" by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

Chuck Close

#Photography Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Clouds Quotes

“You have seen me at my worst and at my weakest. Let me show you my best.”

Source : Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.281, Penguin
“I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.”
“Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is embarrassment all around when the wish to hear a story is expressed. It is as if something that seemed inalienable to us, the securest among our possessions, were taken from us: the ability to exchange our experiences...Experience has fallen in value. And it looks as if it is continuing to fall into bottomlessness.”
“The greatest sense of love, which is available for us at all times, is God's love.”
“I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.”
“God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.”
“There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.”
“What I never wanted in art - and why I probably didn't belong in art - was that I never wanted viewers. I think the basic condition of art is the viewer: The viewer is here, the art is there. So the viewer is in a position of desire and frustration. There were those Do Not Touch signs in a museum that are saying that the art is more expensive than the people. But I wanted users and a habitat. I don't know if I would have used those words then, but I wanted inhabitants, participants. I wanted an interaction.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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