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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

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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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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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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 never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
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I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
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A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.
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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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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 have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.
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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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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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It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
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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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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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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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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
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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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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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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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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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