A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.

Chuck Close
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  1. 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...

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

  3. 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...

  4. Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

  5. Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

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