I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not… — 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
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it,… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The camera is objective. When it records a face it can't make any hierarchical decisions about a nose being more important than… — 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
In life you can be dealt a winning hand of cards and you can find a way to lose, and you can… — 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
