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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
Drawer
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Monroe
Washington
Charles Thomas Close
Charles Close
Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
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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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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
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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 learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
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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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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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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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I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.
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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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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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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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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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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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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 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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I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.
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I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.
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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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