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All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
Chuck Close
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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
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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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At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.
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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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In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
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I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional way.
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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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I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.
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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
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Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it also gave me a way to demonstrate to my teacher that, despite the fact that I couldn't write a paper or do math, I was paying attention.
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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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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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There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
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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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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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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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I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.
Chuck Close
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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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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