Chuck Close Quotes

My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

Once you let go of the idea of waiting for a magical lightning bolt of genius to hit, you can really get to work.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

If you're not creating, you're waiting.

When you can't create you can work

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.