Chuck Close Quotes About Inspiration

Quotes about: Inspiration

• Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

  Chuck Close

  Work, Inspiration, Ideas

• Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will - through work - bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great "art idea."

  Chuck Close

  Art, Inspiration, Doors

  "Inside the Painter's Studio". Book by Joe Fig, September 2, 2009.

• Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you. Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and get to work. Every great idea I've ever had grew out of work itself. Sign onto a process and see where it takes you. You don't have to invent the wheel everyday. Today you will do what you did yesterday, tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually, you will get somewhere.

  Chuck Close

  Inspiration, Ideas, Yesterday

• Inspiration is for amateurs.

  Chuck Close

  Inspiration, Writing

  Interview with Roberto Patella, spiritandfleshmag.com. December 18, 2015.

• 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.

  Chuck Close

  Inspiration, Artist, Giving

• Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Inspiration, Clouds

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Close" by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

• I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.

  Chuck Close

  Believe, Inspiration, Cooking

• Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.

  Chuck Close

  Inspiration, Everyday, Deadline

• Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Inspiration, Ideas

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

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Inspiration, Photographer

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