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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

Chuck Close

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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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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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I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
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Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever... slowly sneaking up on what I wanted rather than having to predetermine what it was.
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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 don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.
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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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Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will - through work - bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great art idea.
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Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.
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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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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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I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
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