I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
Chuck CloseRead
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Creativity requires consistent effort rather than waiting for a moment of inspiration.
Chuck Close emphasizes the importance of diligence and hard work in the creative process, arguing that waiting for inspiration is a trap that can hinder artistic development. Instead of relying on fleeting moments of creativity, he advocates for a proactive approach where one simply shows up and engages in their work to cultivate their artistic skills.
Themes
InspirationArtCreativityHard WorkEffort
In practice
Example use cases
In a workshop for aspiring artists, you might say this quote to encourage them to be proactive in their creative journeys.
More from Chuck Close
All quotes →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 CloseRead
Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.
Chuck CloseRead
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 CloseRead
Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.
Chuck CloseRead
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.
Chuck CloseRead
Similar quotes
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.
Anna QuindlenRead
ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.
Gerard Manley HopkinsRead
I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.
Stanley TucciRead
Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them.
Peter JacksonRead
Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics.
Charlie ChaplinRead
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
Robertson DaviesRead