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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 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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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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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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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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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.
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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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In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
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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 learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
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I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.
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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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It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
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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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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.
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