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I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.
Chuck Close
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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
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I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.
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The camera is objective. When it records a face it can't make any hierarchical decisions about a nose being more important than a cheek. The camera is not aware of what it is looking at. It just gets it all down.
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I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.
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I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
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I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
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Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.
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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
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I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.
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I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
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Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.
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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.
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All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.
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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.
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I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.
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The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.
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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
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When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.
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It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.
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What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.
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