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
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
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
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
I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of… — 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
In life you can be dealt a winning hand of cards and you can find a way to lose, and you can… — 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
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
