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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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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
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Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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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 think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
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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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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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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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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'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
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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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It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
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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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