13 Quotes by Chuck Close
- 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.
- 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.
- Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
- 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.
- It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
- 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.
- I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.
- I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is.
- I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.
- 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.
- All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
- I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.
- Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
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