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Chuck Close

A 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 life experiences have been.

— Chuck Close life

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 art

A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.

— Chuck Close change

Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.

— Chuck Close nature

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

I have no intention of flattering people. I like wrinkles and crow's feet and flaws, and somebody should know, if I'm going to photograph them, that's going to show up, you know?

— Chuck Close people

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 you

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

— Chuck Close inspiration

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

— Chuck Close sin

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

— Chuck Close art

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 learning

There 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 correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.

— Chuck Close art

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.

— Chuck Close life

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 pain

I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.

— Chuck Close men

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

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

— Chuck Close work

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

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

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

— Chuck Close faith

I don't care about the Guggenheim. The Guggenheim isn't involved in anything that I am interested in. I don't care about motorcycles and Armani suits.

— Chuck Close man

You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is.

— Chuck Close art

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 pain

In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn't going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.

— Chuck Close history

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

A face is a road map of someones life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, theres a great deal thats communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

— Chuck Close life

Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.

— Chuck Close work

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