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The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.
Chuck Close
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Chuck Close
Age: 81 †
Born: 1940
Born: July 5
Died: 2021
Died: August 19
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Charles Thomas Close
Charles Close
Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
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All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.
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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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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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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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There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
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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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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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What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.
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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
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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.
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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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It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.
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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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Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
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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 have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.
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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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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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