Chuck Close

While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal…

— Chuck Close

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

— Chuck Close

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

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

— Chuck Close

After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected…

— Chuck Close

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and…

— Chuck Close

Every child should have a chance to feel special.

— Chuck Close

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

— Chuck Close

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…

— Chuck Close

In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in…

— Chuck Close

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

— Chuck Close

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

— Chuck Close

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

— Chuck Close

Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

— Chuck Close

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

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

— Chuck Close

I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

— Chuck Close

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

— Chuck Close

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

Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching…

— Chuck Close

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

The camera is objective. When it records a face it can't make any hierarchical decisions about a nose being more important than…

— Chuck Close

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.

— Chuck Close

If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep…

— Chuck Close

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A…

— Chuck Close