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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.
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 Close
Chuck Close (1940-2021)
Charles Close (1940-2021)
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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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I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
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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 never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
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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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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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Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process they come out of the work itself.
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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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