Chuck Close Quotes

Most Famous Chuck Close Quotes of All Time!

We have created a collection of some of the best chuck-close quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Chuck Close Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space...

Popular Quotes Topics for You.

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

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.

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

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.

I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

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.

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

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

I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.

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.

I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it...

No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.

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.

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

Guys, we are trying to share Unique Chuck Close Quotes, so you will not get to read the same things again and again on our website. You can also share your favorites on Facebook or send them to a friend who loves to reading quotes.