Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.
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 … - Chuck Close
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 …
- Chuck Close
Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever.… - Chuck Close
Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever.…
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble. - Chuck Close
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision. - Chuck Close
While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you. - Chuck Close
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.
I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing. - Chuck Close
I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.
In life you can be dealt a winning hand of cards and you can find a way to lose, and you can be dealt a losing hand and find a way to win. True in ar… - Chuck Close
In life you can be dealt a winning hand of cards and you can find a way to lose, and you can be dealt a losing hand and find a way to win. True in ar…
Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline. - Chuck Close
Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.
Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance. - Chuck Close
Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.
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