Author: Chuck Close

Quotes

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

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.

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.

- 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

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

- 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

Every child should have a chance to feel special.

Every child should have a chance to feel special.

- 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

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.

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

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

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