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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
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 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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Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever... slowly sneaking up on what I wanted rather than having to predetermine what it was.
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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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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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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.
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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 never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
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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've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
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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 the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's 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'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
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