In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn't going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.
If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.
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Jason Mraz
You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.
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Shaun Hick
Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.
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Criss Jami
God tests, but he does not tempt.
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Criss Jami
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.
