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
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
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
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
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
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
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