Chuck Close Quotes

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• In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
• It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
• Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.
• Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
• Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
• 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 I…
• Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of…
• Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how…
• Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the…
• I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.
• Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
• Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.
• Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and…
• Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.
• Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will…
• Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.
• 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 labor-saving…
• When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method…
• Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they…
• At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of…

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