Chuck Close

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

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.

Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.