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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

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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There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
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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 have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.
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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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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 can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.
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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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I absolutely hate technology, and I'm computer illiterate, and I never use any labor-saving devices although I'm not convinced that a computer is a labor-saving device.
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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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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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I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.
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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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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.
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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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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
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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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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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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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In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
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