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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.
Chuck Close
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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
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Charles Thomas Close
Charles Close
Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
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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 have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.
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Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
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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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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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I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
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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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All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.
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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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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 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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