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Inspiration is for amateurs,’ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. ‘The rest of us just show up and get to work.


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Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.
CHUCK CLOSE Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
STEPHEN KING Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
CHUCK CLOSE I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
CHUCK CLOSE Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.
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KELLY JONES The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait aroun...
CHUCK CLOSE I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the ...
FEDERICO FELLINI Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, ...
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ADAM KENNEDY Toys are the greatest inspiration for me. People never really grow up. They just get bigger adult bo...
DOUG TAYLOR How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
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JANE CHOC I feel like I've already been blessed with the opportunities to travel and compete. I want to show t...
DAVID HUBBARD As you get older, your windows of opportunity close. I needed to make a record once and for all that...
ALISON MOYET We just got to show up and play from the get-go, ... Once we settle down, we're fine.
BILL SWEENEY The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK I just want to go to work and play dress up, like, for the rest of my life.
CHELSEA KANE Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
PABLO PICASSO You work seven straight days once you get there. You get one day off each week for the rest of the t...
MARTHA MINNICH May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Chuck Norris doesn't need to understand the work of James Joyce; James Joyce needs to understand...
BRIAN CELIO Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
PABLO PICASSO Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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DANNY NILLES The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.
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NAOMI KLEIN The rest of the time is up to the rest of us,
JODY WILLIAMS The work of the artist is to lift up peoples hearts and help them endure
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OSWALDO NEGRI Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER One of the greatest dangers for us creators is that we are impatiently waiting for inspiration to st...
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KATIE NELSON But the rest is up to him to show his speed.
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NAOMI KLEIN That gives us another three months to get all the rest up and running,
CHARLES CARROLL Measuring how hard your team is working by counting the number of hours they work or what time they ...
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IGOR STRAVINSKY Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at...
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JOEY ADAMS The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the so...
ARISTIDES ("THE JUST") We make war that we may live in peace.
ARISTIDES ("THE JUST") Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Amateurs hope, professionals work.
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ANNE MCCOY The ultimate goal of this work is to identify a kind of signature for CH5+. Once we have it, we can ...
ANNE B. MCCOY The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only a...
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LEE FEINSTEIN When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ...
HENRY HON The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
FEDERICO FELLINI All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
PABLO PICASSO This is a bit of a retrospective show for him. He has work from earlier periods and all the way up t...
MARK MCWHORTER When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for ins...
LAMAR ALEXANDER The show is great. It highlights the district's work and opens up that alumni connection. It's helpi...
DR. ROY SEITSINGER My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudd...
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PETER DIAMANDIS Another year is ending, but something is pending
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I spin around on the swivel chair and look up at the ceiling; Oliver being Oliver being Oliver being...
JOE DUNTHORNE (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON That's a great pep up for an artist, to sell their work.
JUDITH COPELAND If you show up for your work day after day after day, you just might get lucky enough some random mo...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The rest of us would have to remember to hit because we might get caught up in watching the show. Th...
ADAM KENNEDY I'm going to work hard, and I think I'm close now. I just need a chance to show what I can do.
FERNANDO NIEVE I enjoy doing my work, and I don't want to deal with the other things. When you enjoy doing your...
A. BALASUBRAMANIAM Most of the mess was on the plastic, ... The rest we would just sweep up and get rid of.
JEFF LONG Schuyler pulled Oliver close and hugged him tightly. "Thank you," she whispered. Thank you for lovin...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ What's cool about here is they won't just get their autographs, they'll get to skate with them and s...
MIKE CRUM Oliver Kahn has shown once again that he is a great sportsman.
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NANCY MISSLER After this, I can't resist. "Between you, me, and the rest of us, Ted, it's starting to show. You'd ...
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OLIVER NORTH To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again...
MARY OLIVER You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Make the iron hot by striking it.
OLIVER CROMWELL One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going.
OLIVER CROMWELL This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
OLIVER WENDELL The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I re...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has no...
PETER OLIVER Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommod...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH