#her

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#any #force #i #interest #listened

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

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look. ↗

— Chuck Close

#does #front #life #look #looking

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#aristocratic #been #commerce #ever #mode

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

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

It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do. ↗

— Glenn Close

#everybody #kind #little #little thing #looking

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#other #overly #people #polite #sort

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#bite #everything #fearful #glass #i

Rather be dead than cool. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#dead #rather #than