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Chuck Close
American
Artist
Born:
Jul 5
,
1940
About
Art
Me
Think
Work
You
Related authors:
Andy Warhol
Jackson Pollock
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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
You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.
Chuck Close
Today
Day
You
Every Day
Tomorrow
Will
Somewhere
Yesterday
Every
Get
Did
Wheel
Eventually
Reinvent
Reinvent The Wheel
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
Life
You
Looking
Photograph
Look
Make
Does
Still
Front
Difference
Whether
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
You
Recognizable
Minimum
Able
About
Give
Something
Head
Like
Looks
Make
Discovered
Person
Fewer
Information
Dots
Much
Who
Specific
Number
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
Other
Would
Some
Per
Color
Could
Colors
Pieces
Making
Ultimately
Square
Get
Did
Just
Oil
Bigger
Which
Then
Paintings
Started
Basically
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
Art
Great
History
You
Will
Nothing
Painting
Way
Tells
Know
Sound
Art History
Very
Lousy
Same
Often
Taught
Much
Description
Why
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
Me
Learning
First
Recognize
Faces
Fact
Disabilities
Drove
First Place
Another
Sure
Surface
Lot
Controlled
In Fact
Wanted
Flat
Place
Translate
Things
Portraits
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
Chuck Close
You
Walk
Space
Relate
Object
Almost
Like
Another
Around
Occupies
Real
Person
Sculpture
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
No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.
Chuck Close
Me
More
Except
No-One
Dealer
Surprised
Selling
Than
Maybe
Paintings
Started
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
I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.
Chuck Close
Painting
Peel
Find
Able
Onion
Layers
Like
Same
Same Level
Blues
Want
Viewer
Away
Level
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
Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.
Chuck Close
Idiot
Stay
Vegas
Concerned
Am
Goes
Any
Artist
As Far As
Far
Who
Whoever
Las Vegas
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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