I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.
Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to...
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Ally Condie
When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.
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Nora Ephron
To stand on a mountain top, you must first create the mountain.
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Anthony T. Hincks
God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.
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Amy Carmichael
If you drop your beliefs, you drop your success. God's mighty people begin to fall even as achievers when they begin to drop the beliefs they pursue at first.
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Israelmore Ayivor
More Quotes By Chuck Close
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to...
Amateurs look for inspiration the rest of us just get up and go to work.
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space...
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
