All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. — 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 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
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
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
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
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
