Chuck Close quote: "I don't care about the Guggenheim. The Guggenheim isn't involved in anything that I am interested in. I don't care about motorcycles and Armani suits."

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.
CHUCK CLOSE

A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it...
CHUCK CLOSE

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying th...
CHUCK CLOSE

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
CHUCK CLOSE

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting i...
CHUCK CLOSE

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process t...
CHUCK CLOSE

There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There...
CHUCK CLOSE

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled...
CHUCK CLOSE

Of course there are all the negative reviews, which also are incredibly important. Hilton Kramer hat...
CHUCK CLOSE

I have no intention of flattering people. I like wrinkles and crow's feet and flaws, and somebod...
CHUCK CLOSE

I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have fac...
CHUCK CLOSE

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist ...
CHUCK CLOSE

A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It'...
CHUCK CLOSE

Very few people have written about what a work really looks like, especially once there were photogr...
CHUCK CLOSE

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still us...
CHUCK CLOSE

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
CHUCK CLOSE

Europe often seems sort of overly concerned with the weight of history and stuff. We don't have much...
CHUCK CLOSE

I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, a...
CHUCK CLOSE

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
CHUCK CLOSE

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it c...
CHUCK CLOSE

Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.
CHUCK CLOSE

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not lia...
CHUCK CLOSE

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait aroun...
CHUCK CLOSE

There's a kind of prevailing sensibility in any given moment in time, so sometimes the art world gra...
CHUCK CLOSE

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
CHUCK CLOSE

The city continues to be a magnet for the best and the brightest that come here from all over the co...
CHUCK CLOSE

Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
CHUCK CLOSE

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another pe...
CHUCK CLOSE

I love what used to be called women's work. When women make quilts or something like that, it was so...
CHUCK CLOSE

At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you k...
CHUCK CLOSE

I've said it's a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magi...
CHUCK CLOSE

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled...
CHUCK CLOSE

I tried to, with a series of self-imposed limitations, back myself into my own personal corner where...
CHUCK CLOSE

When critics begin to identify something that they see as a tendency, they tend to write about what ...
CHUCK CLOSE

I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. Yo...
CHUCK CLOSE

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look ...
CHUCK CLOSE

I don't do commissioned portraits and I don't paint college presidents. I can't imagine what kind of...
CHUCK CLOSE

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is gr...
CHUCK CLOSE

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to...
CHUCK CLOSE

Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal t...
CHUCK CLOSE

I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't d...
CHUCK CLOSE

I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an ...
CHUCK CLOSE

You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and to...
CHUCK CLOSE

I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional an...
CHUCK CLOSE

I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. Yo...
CHUCK CLOSE

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests...
CHUCK CLOSE

The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 blac...
CHUCK CLOSE

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where...
CHUCK CLOSE

Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.
GLENN CLOSE

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
GLENN CLOSE

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many tr...
GLENN CLOSE

The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before. There's ...
DEL CLOSE

I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, th...
ERIC CLOSE

There's something about a catharsis that is very important.
GLENN CLOSE

The kind of improv that I'm particularly addicted to is the kind that... aims at creating a mome...
DEL CLOSE

You never want to be the first one of your friends to get married. If you are, just resign yourself ...
JENNIFER CLOSE

We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by ...
GLENN CLOSE

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
GLENN CLOSE

I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcem...
GLENN CLOSE

I'm always trying to look for different roles.
ERIC CLOSE

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul....
GLENN CLOSE

We knew coming in that one of the keys would be pressure. I just took that to the fullest.
MANDY CLOSE

I'm surprised he doesn't get more recognition nationwide. He's a much better 3-point shooter than he...
GARY CLOSE

I'm sure the FBI and CIA must be mortified by this because it is extremely embarrassing to them.
RAY CLOSE

[On Thursday night, Close will be presented with the Human Spirit Award by the Christopher Reeve Par...
GLENN CLOSE

The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of sa...
GLENN CLOSE

It's fairly likely something will be worked out. We still have to iron out some things.
CASEY CLOSE

Mr. Lawrence drank from his beer. Do you know how I figure out what to do? I look under rocks for sl...
CHARLIE CLOSE

The Monte Carlo TV Festival is great because it's a celebration of television and great storytel...
ERIC CLOSE

What's really exciting about this is that we found the brown dwarf around one of the 25 stellar syst...
LAIRD CLOSE

That's a convenient explanation, but it doesn't satisfy me. Incompetence I have not seen in those ag...
RAY CLOSE

It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I...
GLENN CLOSE

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.
GLENN CLOSE

in no way, holds you responsible for what happened to Troy.
GLENN CLOSE

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
GLENN CLOSE

There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of weal...
GLENN CLOSE

It was the continuing convergence of entertainment and sports.
CASEY CLOSE

When a friendship ends, people don't always give it the same amount of thought that they do relation...
JENNIFER CLOSE

We have not been created out of nothing, but from primeval "ur-matter," atoms formed billions of yea...
FRANK CLOSE

Autonomous robots alone will be unable to realize those scientific goals in the foreseeable future,
FRANK CLOSE

Human space flight beyond Mars is just not possible because of the increased exposure to galactic co...
FRANK CLOSE

Like most scientists, we felt that in the past human space exploration had been driven by politics a...
FRANK CLOSE

If you would have told me we were going to score 75 points, I figured we would have had a pretty goo...
GARY CLOSE

We just could not consistently stop them, whether it was a jump shot, whether it was a drive to the ...
GARY CLOSE

They're healthy, they're focused and they're back playing the way they were playing earlier in the s...
GARY CLOSE

He has great hands and I think his defense helps him in the sense that they force a lot of bad shots...
GARY CLOSE

Quick hands. He'll take the thing away from you if you aren't protecting the ball. He'll jump passin...
GARY CLOSE

I'll tell you what. If there are six teams better than them, that's a loaded league because they're ...
GARY CLOSE

The past two games were battles, so we have to be ready to go to battle (again). We'll prepare this ...
MANDY CLOSE

I love getting assists. There's no better way to win tonight than distribute the ball and get everyo...
MANDY CLOSE

You step up and drain it. You can't be worrying about the shots you've missed before. That was my me...
MANDY CLOSE

It's a great feeling right now. I can't even explain it.
MANDY CLOSE

The interesting thing is the models for the most part suggest brown dwarfs should be free-floating i...
LAIRD CLOSE

This is really very much in our neighborhood of the galaxy.
LAIRD CLOSE

Meridian International Center seeks to educate people of all ages about global issues, connect profe...
JUDITH CLOSE

The exotic new show features 60 rich and diverse works by 14 artists ranging in age from their early...
JUDITH CLOSE

The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life...
ERIC CLOSE

I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor...
ERIC CLOSE

The two most important words in marriage for me are 'yes, dear.'
ERIC CLOSE

A lot of factors go into the longevity of a show.
ERIC CLOSE

I was a wild kid in high school. I liked to get crazy and be rebellious and go to parties and do all...
ERIC CLOSE

I pick up other people's trash. I'm sort of obsessed.
ERIC CLOSE

I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You'...
ERIC CLOSE

If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy m...
ERIC CLOSE

I've always been a big fan of Nashville, and I have friends that live there.
ERIC CLOSE

We haven't been listening to legal immigrants. We've been taking their name in vain.
SANDY CLOSE

Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.
CHUCK BERRY

I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad peop...
CHUCK LORRE

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, ...
CHUCK YEAGER

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' '...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't f...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens jus...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their w...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - pai...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scare...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a...
CHUCK HAGEL

The final line in the Second Amendment says, 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shal...
CHUCK NORRIS

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
CHUCK JONES

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need ...
CHUCK D

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all fall...
CHUCK HAGEL

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, beca...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres.
CHUCK INGLISH

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
CHUCK JONES

What was Bruce Lee like? How did you meet? What was it like to choreograph the fight scene in Rome w...
CHUCK NORRIS

I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, ...
CHUCK KLEIN

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or aware...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

It's the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It's not the secure ...
CHUCK NORRIS

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapo...
CHUCK SCHUMER

California club pop chirper Dev's debut is as stark as it is sweet. This is owed partly to the c...
CHUCK EDDY

Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance...
CHUCK TODD

I'm a can-do conservative, and I just love the job, and I think I'm going to get re-elected.
CHUCK FLEISCHMANN

Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the othe...
CHUCK D

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
CHUCK NORRIS

Every day, we are bombarded with a multitude of toxins in the environment. We know that the negative...
CHUCK NORRIS

I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt ...
CHUCK FEENEY

My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was n...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable....
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basi...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book wr...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN

Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like b...
CHUCK BARRIS

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

We can't deal with the flood in the orchards until we cap the floodwaters coming into them. And ...
CHUCK NORRIS

Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as ess...
CHUCK D

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mista...
CHUCK SCHUMER

Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a...
CHUCK MANGIONE

You decide your own level of involvement.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolis...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Everyone knows that the Internet is changing our lives, mostly because someone in the media has utte...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in a...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run f...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of yo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would al...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN

Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Beca...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN

A menos que todo empeore, nada puede mejorar.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, b...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant th...
CHUCK DALY

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.
CHUCK KNOX

Playing safe is only playing.
CHUCK OLSON

Practice without improvement is meaningless.
CHUCK KNOX

It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers.
CHUCK HILLIS

I don't care about the Guggenheim. The Guggenheim isn't involved in anything that I am interested in. I don't care about motorcycles and Armani suits.

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