Chuck Close Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• 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

• 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.

• Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

  Chuck Close

  Art, Motivation, Waiting

• 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

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