Author: Chuck Close

Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

- Chuck Close

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

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

- Chuck Close

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

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

- Chuck Close

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.

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

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

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

- 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.

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

Every child should have a chance to feel special.

Every child should have a chance to feel special.

- Chuck Close

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

- Chuck Close

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