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At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.

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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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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.
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A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.
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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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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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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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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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All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
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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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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.
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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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I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
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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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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.
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I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
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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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In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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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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