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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.
Chuck Close
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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
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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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All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.
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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 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.
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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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All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
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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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There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
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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'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
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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 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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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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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
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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 always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.
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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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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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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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The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.
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