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All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
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Charles Thomas Close
Charles Close
Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
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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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It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
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Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will - through work - bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great art idea.
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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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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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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
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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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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
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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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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've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
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I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
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Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
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