I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless. — 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
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
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
I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize… — 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 Image
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you. — 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 often than… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
