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Chuck Close - From the Ability category:
I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Abstraction category:
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 it gets to the point where I can leave it. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Advice category:
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration... If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Choices category:
I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Collaboration category:
Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Colour category:
I only use three primaries, so the nice thing is I can't have favorite colors. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Colour category:
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 the strokes themselves. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Confidence category:
If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Construction category:
I build a painting by putting little marks together – some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Critics category:
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Focus category:
Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Greatness category:
You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Ideas category:
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Inspiration category:
Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Joy category:
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 record that's embedded in the work. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Magic category:
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 somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Motivation category:
Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Painting category:
I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Perfection category:
I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Photography category:
What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Pleasure category:
It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Portraiture category:
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 head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Preparation category:
All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Problems category:
Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Sculpture category:
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object. (Chuck Close)
Chuck Close - From the Work category:
You don't have to invent the wheel everyday. Today you'll do what you did yesterday, tomorrow you'll do what you did today, eventually you will get somewhere. (Chuck Close)
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