I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. — 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
I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am… — 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
I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject. — 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 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
Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
It always amazes me that just when I think there's nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep… — 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
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
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
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in… — 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
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
The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system. — 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… — 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
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
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
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing. — 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
