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I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.

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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)
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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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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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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 think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
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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 never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
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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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Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.
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There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.
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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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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
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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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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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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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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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In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
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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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All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.
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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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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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