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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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Monroe
Washington
Charles Thomas Close
Charles Close
Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
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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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In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
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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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Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
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All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
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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 learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
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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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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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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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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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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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There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
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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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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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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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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
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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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I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
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