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I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant. ↗

— Chuck Close

#i #indecision #life #my life #order

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. ↗

— Chuck Close

#art #artists #certainly #does #find

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. ↗

— Chuck Close

#another #another way #colored #dirt #every

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do. ↗

— Glenn Close

#acting #adventure #basically #examining #heart

Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#explanation #humility #uncertainty #education

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind. ↗

— Glenn Close

#gone #gone with the wind #had #hara #i

I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here. ↗

— Glenn Close

#based #been #find #fits #here

If a musician wants to become a fine artist, he must first become a finer person. ↗

— Shinichi Suzuki

#music #education

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well. ↗

— Brian Clough

#chairman #go #initially #manager #sacks

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#bmw #family #get #gratification #i