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

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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
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Charles Thomas Close
Charles Close
Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
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Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.
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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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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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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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All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.
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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 think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.
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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 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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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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Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.
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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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I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
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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 don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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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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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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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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