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

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Tis ever thus when favours are denied; All had been granted but the thing we beg: And still some great unlikely substitute-- Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good-- Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.

Chuck Close

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

Amateurs, Inspiration, Photographer, Photography, Work

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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.

Amazing, Painting, Photography, Space, Thinking, Transcendence

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

Cry, Dirt, Make, Painting, Paintings

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

Amount, Images, Information, Maximum, Subjects

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

Controlled, Drove, Faces, Photography, Portraits, Translate

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I'm always thinking 'how can I continue to grow?'

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I already achieved my dream by fighting at Madison Square Garden for my second pro fight. I felt like I won the world title already, and I only had two professional fights. Madison Square Garden stands alone as far as boxing venues are concerned, and I dream about going back there again.

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Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.

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