American - Artist | July 5, 1940 -
I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work - I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive.
Chuck Close
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
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What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.
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Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
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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.
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The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.
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I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
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