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I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
Chuck Close
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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
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Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
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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 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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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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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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I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.
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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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I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.
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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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