I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. — 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
From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I have no intention of flattering people. I like wrinkles and crow's feet and flaws, and somebody should know, if I'm going… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in… — 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
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
Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
It always amazes me that just when I think there's nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the… — 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
Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a… — 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
See, I think our whole society is much too problem-solving oriented. It is far more interesting to participate in 'problem creation'... You… — 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
I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More… — 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… — 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
I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden. — 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
In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing. — 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
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
![“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.” quote by Chuck Close](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/682/chuck-close-4781_knows_it-s-like-a-magic-well-you-think-you-kno_651222.jpg)
