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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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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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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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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 think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
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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.
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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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There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
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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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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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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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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'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
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Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.
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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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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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