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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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Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.
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I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
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Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.
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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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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
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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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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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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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There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
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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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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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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 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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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