Chuck Close Quotes:
I don’t work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
Chuck Close
Sculpture occupies real space like we do… you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
Chuck Close
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.
Chuck Close
A photograph doesn’t gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It’s frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
Chuck Close
You know, the way art history is taught, often there’s nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
Chuck Close
In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
Chuck Close
There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it’s just phenomenal. There’s also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.
Chuck Close
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I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.
Chuck Close
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Painting is a lie. It’s the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
Chuck Close
I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.
Chuck Close
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
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that’s embedded in the work.
Chuck Close
There’s something Zen-like about the way I work – it’s like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
Chuck Close
Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It’s the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.
Chuck Close
No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.
Chuck Close
I’m not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work – I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive.
Chuck Close
I’m poor white trash from the state of Washington.
Chuck Close
I’m plagued with indecision in my life. I can’t figure out what to order in a restaurant.
Chuck Close
All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
Chuck Close
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
A face is a road map of someone’s life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there’s a great deal that’s communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.
Chuck Close
The reason I don’t like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.
Chuck Close
If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.
Chuck Close
I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.
Chuck Close
I only have so much time and energy and money, and I’m going to put it into my work.
Chuck Close
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