Chuck CloseFar more interesting than problem solving is problem creation. ✨ Chuck Close with Phong Bui. Interview with Phong Bui, brooklynrail.org. June 7, 2008.372Sadness
Chuck CloseI absolutely hate technology, and I'm computer illiterate, and I never use any labor-saving devices although I'm not convinced that a computer is a labor-saving device.362Hope
Chuck CloseWhen you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a pain… ▶352DeathSadnessThought
Chuck CloseNeurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, w… ▶352Sadness
Chuck CloseThe advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and… ▶342Reading
Chuck CloseSculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.353Humor
Chuck CloseEvery idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.311Thought
Chuck CloseIt's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.344Truth
Chuck CloseInspiration is for amateurs. ✨ Interview with Roberto Patella, spiritandfleshmag.com. December 18, 2015.356Humanity
Chuck CloseOf all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.378Thought
Chuck CloseLike 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 … ▶346PoliticsThought
Chuck CloseThe reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real. ✨ Conversation: Chuck Close, Christ… ▶302Love
Chuck CloseI've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.3710Thought
Chuck CloseI never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.326Truth
Chuck ClosePaintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.282Sadness
Chuck CloseThere are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high cor… ▶337Thought
Chuck CloseInspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not… ▶349Thought
Chuck CloseIn life you can be dealt a winning hand of cards and you can find a way to lose, and you can be dealt a losing hand and find a way to win. True in art and true in life: you pretty… ▶3510LifeTruth
Chuck CloseMost 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.283Humanity
Chuck CloseOnce I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever... slowly sneaking up on what … ▶273Philosophy
Chuck CloseAt 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.339Time
Chuck CloseI 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 … ▶317Humanity
Chuck CloseI only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work. ✨ Artist Chuck Close Talks About Corruption On The Art Market. www.huffingtonpost.com. A… ▶262Time
Chuck CloseLosing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.241Time
Chuck CloseAll the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.318Sadness
Chuck CloseWhat 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.329Life
Chuck CloseNever let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.319Thought
Chuck ClosePainting is the frozen evidence of a performance. ✨ What I've Learned: Chuck Close by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.275Sadness
Chuck CloseI am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.319Death
Chuck CloseA face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their … ▶221Life
