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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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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 don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.
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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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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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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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I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.
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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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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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All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.
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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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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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I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
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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've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
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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 never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
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