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I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.

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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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At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.
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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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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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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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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.
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All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.
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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 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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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.
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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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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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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 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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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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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
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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 never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
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There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.
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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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