Chuck Close Quotes

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• All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to…
• I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm…
• I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
• Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.
• Inspiration is for amateurs.
• While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.
• 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 not,…
• You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did…
• I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really…
• All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.
• See, I think our whole society is much too problem-solving oriented. It is far more interesting to participate in 'problem creation'... You know, ask yourself…
• If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.
• I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.
• The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.
• A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's…
• I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face…
• Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.
• Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
• I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a…
• I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but…

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