After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected… — 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… — 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
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
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 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 think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system. — 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
Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me. — 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
