"I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is."

-- Chuck Close

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“More people use guns to kill themselves than to kill others.”
“When I went kayak surfing in Cornwall, I got a really deep gash on my hand - it looked like I had a slug on it - so I went to Harley Street for surgery, because I looked like a battered woman when I was making things on Blue Peter.”

Source : "Konnie Huq: If I show my cleavage people make such a fuss". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 30, 2008.
“I need some me-time. I have to remember to rest, because I have a natural energy and I don't want to burn out.”
“Getting laid off was one of the worst things that ever happened to me. But it led to the best results.”
“Any Black person in amerika [sic], if they are being honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they don't know what it feels like to be free. We aren't free politically, economically, or socially. We have very little power over what happens in our lives. In fact, a Black person isn't free to walk down the street. Walk down the wrong street, in the wrong neighborhood at night, and you know what happens.”
“A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.”
“It would be great to have Bach in one corner, Bessie Smith in another, John Lennon in another. That's what I'd ideally like. A studio of the dead.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Simple is the only way I can write.”

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