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It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

Chuck Close

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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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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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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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I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
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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 always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.
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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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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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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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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 think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
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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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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
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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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You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
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I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.
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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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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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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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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
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