I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration.… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration.… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision. — Chuck Close Copy Share
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you. — Chuck Close Copy Share
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… — Chuck Close Copy Share
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden. — Chuck Close Copy Share
After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an… — Chuck Close Copy Share
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see… — Chuck Close Copy Share
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… — Chuck Close Copy Share
In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because… — Chuck Close Copy Share
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble. — Chuck Close Copy Share
You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you… — Chuck Close Copy Share
