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Chuck Close

"I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around."

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Amber Hurdle

"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."

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Amber Hurdle

"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."

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Amber Hurdle

"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."

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Amber Hurdle

"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."

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Amber Hurdle

"What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you."

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Amber Hurdle

"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."

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Amber Hurdle

"She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk."

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Amber Hurdle

"Not everyone can experience what other people can... That's why movies come out... films and books... and short stories and novels..."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present."

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Chuck Close
"Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from."

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Chuck Close
"I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is."

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Chuck Close
"It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians."

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Chuck Close
"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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Chuck Close
"Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow."

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Chuck Close
"Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work."

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Chuck Close
"It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work."

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Chuck Close
"I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around."

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Chuck Close
"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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Chuck Close
"I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have."

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