Chuck Close Quotes - Page 3

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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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  Photography, Art, Mirrors

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• I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.

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  Photography, Mind, Facts

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• If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

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  Photography, Art, Looks

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• At 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.

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  Color, Trying, World

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• The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.

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  Photography, Eight, Color

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• Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

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  Father, Important, Age

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• I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.

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  Interesting, Problem, Creation

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• I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

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  Photography, Art, Educational

  "Conversation: Chuck Close, Christopher Finch". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 2, 2010.

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• I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

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  Photography, Memories, Thinking

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• The camera is objective. When it records a face it can't make any hierarchical decisions about a nose being more important than a cheek. The camera is not aware of what it is looking at. It just gets it all down.

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  Decision, Important, Noses

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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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  Photography, Art, Decision

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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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  Photography, Portraits, Faces

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• 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.

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  Names, Feet, Long

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• 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.

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  Artist, Vegas, Idiot

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• I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

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  Faces, Hopeless, Mets

  "Conversation: Chuck Close, Christopher Finch". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 2, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Photography, Artist, Photographer

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• I only use three primaries, so the nice thing is I can't have favorite colors.

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  Nice, Color, Three

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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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  Thinking, Three, Sculpture

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• There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.

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  Wind, Long, Process

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• I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

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  Photography, Cameras, Way

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• All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

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  Done, Painting, Grids

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• After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an adult - I'm lying in bed thinking, Hmmm, maybe I ought to pray. They always say there are no atheists in a foxhole... and I thought, Here I am in a pretty good-sized foxhole... and I thought Naahhh. I wouldn't respect any God who would listen to me after I'd rejected him so vociferously.

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  Atheist, Lying, Thinking

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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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  Photography, Mean, People

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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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  Photography, Differences, Doe

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• I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

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  Art, Artist, Love Making

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