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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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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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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
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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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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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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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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 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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I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
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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's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
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All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.
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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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