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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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Chuck Close (1940-2021)
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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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I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.
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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 don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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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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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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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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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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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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I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
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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 can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.
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Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
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