28 Chuck Close Quotes for You to Enjoy

Chuck Close

American Artist

Born: Jul 5, 1940

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

You Define Parameters Never Anyone Capable Using Apply

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

Work Garden Way About Something Buddhist Like Zen Gravel

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

Life Art Time Me You Experience Amazing Space Somebody Painting Every Think Every Time Mediums Way See Life Experience Magical Dirt Colored Most Make Another Another Way How Surface Go Truly Where Flat Figured Rub Museum

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests. Chuck Close

Art Perception Visual Reconstruct Primary Then Interests

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 not, work is salvation. Chuck Close

Work You Clouds Wait Sit Liable More Inspiration Part Highly Around Overrated Than Salvation Often Happen Ever

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

Work Inspiration Amateur Get Just

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

Great Great Deal Hopeless Somebody Met Difficulty Recognizing Faces Deal Just

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. Chuck Close

People Made Some People Think Record Some Clearer Perhaps Most Make Than Artist Just Decisions Little Them Paintings

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

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. Chuck Close

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

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

Work Else Pleasure About Someone Talk Always

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. Chuck Close

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

Good You People Too Say Focused Someone More Most Narrow Very Than Often Mean Many Actually Things

I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly. Chuck Close

Age Better Other Other Kids Draw Kids One Thing Some More Could Badly Knew Five Than The One Thing Wanted Much Thing Cared

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance. Chuck Close

Painting Evidence Performance Frozen

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space. Chuck Close

Lie Space Painting Magic Most Makes Transcendent Where Media

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

You Enemy Trouble Too Ease Easy Get Artist Things

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington. Chuck Close

White State Poor Trash Washington

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important. Chuck Close

Important Think Cindy Emerged Perhaps Most Artists The Most Important Who

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