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I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.
Chuck Close
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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
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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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Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will - through work - bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great art idea.
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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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I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
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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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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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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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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 don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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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 learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
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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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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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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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All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.
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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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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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