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I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
Chuck Close
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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
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Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.
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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 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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All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
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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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I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
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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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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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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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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
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I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
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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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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.
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I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
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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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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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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
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You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
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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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It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
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