American - Artist | July 5, 1940 -
I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
Chuck Close
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Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
WalkSpaceYouPersonSculpture
You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.
TodayDayTomorrowYouYesterday
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.
HistoryLongBackTrailTestNames
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.
FamilyMemoryFriends And FamilyFace
Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.
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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.
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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.
YouNeverCapableDefineApply
A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.
LifeGreatRoadFaceSomeonePerson
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
LifeTimeArtExperienceSpaceMe
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.
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I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
LifeRestaurantMy LifeIndecision
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