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Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

Chuck Close

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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
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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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I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
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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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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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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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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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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.
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There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
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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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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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There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.
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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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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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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.
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It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
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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.
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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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Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever... slowly sneaking up on what I wanted rather than having to predetermine what it was.
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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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Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
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