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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.
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 Close
Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
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Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.
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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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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.
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Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.
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Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.
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I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.
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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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I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.
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It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
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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 think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
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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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I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
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I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
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All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.
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I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
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I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional way.
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I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.
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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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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.
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