Inspiration is for amateurs. - Chuck Close

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But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

Chuck Close

Inspiration is for amateurs.

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

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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 or make you think of a life experience.

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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

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I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.

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But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

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In many ways the culmination of [Judith Butler's] thinking to date, 'Parting Ways' will confirm Butler's place at the forefront of debate about one of the most anguished political crises of our times.

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I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

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As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek.

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I was also a fan of the first one Saw movie. I knew there was a danger in doing the sequel, especially like this. They have such a core audience for the Saw movies. The fans of the movie actually demanded a sequel. They were on the internet going crazy. I don't even go on the internet. I don't even know how all this stuff happens. But they wanted it and one the one hand that's good, because you know there's an audience.

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