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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
Drawer
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Monroe
Washington
Charles Thomas Close
Charles Close
Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
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I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
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All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.
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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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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 think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
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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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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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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
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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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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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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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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
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I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.
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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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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 think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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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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I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.
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You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
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