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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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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
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Charles Thomas Close
Charles Close
Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
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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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It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
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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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I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.
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I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
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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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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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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 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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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.
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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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