Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.
Chuck Close
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Painter
Photographer
Monroe
Washington
Charles Thomas Close
Charles Close
Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
Photography
Fitting
Capable
Defining
Anyone
Capability
Use
Apply
Never
Define
Appropriate
Photographer
Parameters
Using
Suitable
More quotes by Chuck Close
I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.
Chuck Close
I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.
Chuck Close
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
Chuck Close
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.
Chuck Close
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.
Chuck Close
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.
Chuck Close
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.
Chuck Close
It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
Chuck Close
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.
Chuck Close
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
Chuck Close
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.
Chuck Close
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.
Chuck Close
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.
Chuck Close
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.
Chuck Close
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.
Chuck Close
I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.
Chuck Close
Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.
Chuck Close
I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.
Chuck Close
I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
Chuck Close
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
Chuck Close
