Decision Quote by Chuck Close

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

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 often than…

— 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 as an…

— Chuck Close

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

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 is a…

— 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 history because…

— 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