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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
Graphic Artist
Painter
Photographer
Monroe
Washington
Charles Thomas Close
Charles Close
Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
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Perception
Deconstruct
Photography
Reconstruct
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Art
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Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it also gave me a way to demonstrate to my teacher that, despite the fact that I couldn't write a paper or do math, I was paying attention.
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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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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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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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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 never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
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I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
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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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Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions.
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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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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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It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.
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