Chuck Close Quotes

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

Chuck Close

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HistoryGreatArtPaintingYouKnow

Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about politics, but we gaze upon innovation with rapturous adulation.

Jill Lepore

InnovationCulturePoliticsCritics

Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

John Noble

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I wish my grandmother and grandfather were still alive, because they were able to keep me grounded.

John Mellencamp

MeWishAliveGrandfatherI Wish

Every time we make a new invention, we think we're going to save the world, but eventually, we understand that the real virtues of that new invention have mostly to do with commerce. Then we feel a huge emptiness, and we want to fill it with beauty.

Robert Lepage

BeautyTimeWorldThinkFeelNew

I prefer to work when there are people against whom I have to struggle.

Jean-Luc Godard

WorkStrugglePeopleAgainstWhom

Even the biggest coal boosters have long admitted that coal is a dying industry - the fight has always been over how fast and how hard the industry will fall.

Jeff Goodell

FightLongFallFastWillHard

I learnt a lesson that you mustn't worry what people think if you are achieving your objective.

Michael Ashcroft

PeopleThinkWorryYouLessonYour

My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.

Amar'e Stoudemire

FatherBikeMeBasketballYearUsed

The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric.

Rosemary Mahoney

CalmSlowFindIslandBecomeHigh

A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.

Douglas Alexander

PoliticsMeDifferenceDefinesHolds

I started out poking fun at this YouTube thing.

Colleen Ballinger

FunYouTubeOutStartedThing

Girls in this industry sabotage one another.

Brie Larson

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