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

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

- 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.

- Chuck Close

Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.

- Chuck Close

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

- Chuck Close

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

- 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…

- Chuck Close

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

- Chuck Close