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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
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Monroe
Washington
Charles Thomas Close
Charles Close
Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
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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 don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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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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Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions.
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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.
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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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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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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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There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
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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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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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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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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
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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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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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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 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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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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All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
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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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