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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.
Chuck Close
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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)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
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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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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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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.
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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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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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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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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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I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
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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 learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
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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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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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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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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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Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions.
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There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
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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 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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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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All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
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