Author: Chuck Close

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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