Chuck Close Quotes

You can always say that it was scarce dollars when Lewis and Clark wanted to go to the West Coast and explore the West. And people complained about it, I understand, from a reading of the history books.

Over the years, I found myself traveling parts of the Lewis and Clark Trail, putting my hands in the river where they set out from St. Louis, viewing the Great Falls of Montana, standing by the same Pacific Ocean they saw with such joy.

We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.

I don't recall exactly when I first began reading about Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery, but I suspect that it was in fourth grade.

The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.

At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace.

I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.

If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.

I was terrible at school.

On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.

Some people argue we should solve all the problems on Earth before going off the planet, but that's like telling Lewis and Clark to stay put until the rest of the East was settled. No way.

Fifty-four Forty or Fight!

Gentlemen: The Lands of the Missouri River and the Indians inhabiting them are not as well known as they should be….

In 1805, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, making their way across the West, were warned by American Indian tribes of grizzly bears' awesome strength.

For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

Westward the star of empire takes its way.

I'm a closet singer-songwriter. That keeps my creative juices flowing.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

Happiness, that's obviously different for everybody, but what I call my joy, the thing that makes me feel incredibly satiated, is my family, and then I get to go and play out all of my ideas and feelings through all these different characters.

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

Writing is my vacation from living.

If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi... in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all.

To me, it's not work. When I draw and I write, I find it relaxing. It's not like 9-to-5, where a man goes to a job and he isn't really interested in the job. Luckily, I get paid for doing what I'd do for nothing.