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Chuck Close Quotes
«When I was walking around I was 6 foot 3, and people didn't tend to approach me very much, and one of the interesting things about being in a wheelchair is it sort of cuts you down to size and perhaps out of sympathy or whatever people feel much more like coming up to you. I'm more accessible I guess down here.»
Author: Chuck Close
«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.»
Author: Chuck Close
«All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.»
Author: Chuck Close
«I wasn't athletic, I couldn't catch a ball, I couldn't throw a ball, I had all kinds of physical limitations as well. So this was it.»
Author: Chuck Close
«Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.»
Author: Chuck Close
«I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.»
Author: Chuck Close
«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.»
Author: Chuck Close
«When critics begin to identify something that they see as a tendency, they tend to write about what people have in common. And what they share may not be the most important aspects of the work. In fact, it's what makes each artist's work different from the others which is interesting.»
Author: Chuck Close
«My parents were both very supportive of the idea of my being an artist. I had trouble in school, and I think they wanted me to feel good about myself and feel special, so when I exhibited interest in magic, they would help me do magic shows, and puppets, and also they got me private art instruction when I was about 8.»
Author: Chuck Close
«There's a kind of prevailing sensibility in any given moment in time, so sometimes the art world gravitates away from your issues, and then sometimes it will come back towards them.»
Author: Chuck Close