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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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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
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There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.
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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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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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Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.
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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 think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
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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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There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
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Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.
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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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I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
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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 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 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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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.
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I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
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