Chuck Close Quotes


21 quotes:

"I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect."
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"It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work."
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"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."
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"I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have."
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"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."
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"Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object."
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"I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant."
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"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."
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"I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings."
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"Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from."
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"All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional way."
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"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."
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"I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing."
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"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 sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place."
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"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."
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"I wasn't athletic, I couldn't catch a ball, I couldn't throw a ball, I had all kinds of physical limitations as well. So this was it."
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