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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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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Painter
Photographer
Monroe
Washington
Charles Thomas Close
Charles Close
Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
Painting
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Space
Lying
Makes
Transcendent
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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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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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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 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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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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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 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 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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I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
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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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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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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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It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
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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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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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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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I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.
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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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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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