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I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
Chuck Close
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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
Drawer
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Monroe
Washington
Charles Thomas Close
Charles Close
Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.
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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 wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.
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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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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.
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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
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It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
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Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions.
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There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.
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Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever... slowly sneaking up on what I wanted rather than having to predetermine what it was.
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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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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.
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Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
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Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.
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I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
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
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.
Chuck Close
All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.
Chuck Close
I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
Chuck Close
