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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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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
Drawer
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Charles Thomas Close
Charles Close
Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
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Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
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I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
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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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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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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.
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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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There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.
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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'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
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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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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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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 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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