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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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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
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Chuck Close (1940-2021)
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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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I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
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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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In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
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I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
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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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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.
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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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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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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've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
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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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It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
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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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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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It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.
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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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