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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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Monroe
Washington
Charles Thomas Close
Charles Close
Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
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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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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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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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I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
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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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All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
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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 can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.
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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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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 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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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 never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
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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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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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All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.
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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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