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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.

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 don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.
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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've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
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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 think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
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I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.
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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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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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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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