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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.
Chuck Close
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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
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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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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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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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You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
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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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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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In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
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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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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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