All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds… — 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
