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I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.

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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Painter
Photographer
Monroe
Washington
Charles Thomas Close
Charles Close
Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
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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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All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.
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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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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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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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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
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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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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 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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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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There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
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