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All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.

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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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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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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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It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
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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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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 learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
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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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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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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. 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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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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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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There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
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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've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
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All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
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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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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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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 have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.
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