Blindness Quote by Chuck Close

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…

— Chuck Close

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…

— Chuck Close

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that…

— Edvard Munch

I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

— Paula Fox

I love to draw people's faces. I do that all the time.

— Mischa Barton

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.

— Jamie Wyeth

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

— Francis Bacon

I'm good at using my face as a canvas… I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my…

— Cindy Sherman

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been…

— Sarah Ruhl

I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in…

— Chadwick Boseman

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to…

— Sigmar Polke