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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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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
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Chuck Close (1940-2021)
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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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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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I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.
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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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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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The camera is objective. When it records a face it can't make any hierarchical decisions about a nose being more important than a cheek. The camera is not aware of what it is looking at. It just gets it all down.
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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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I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
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