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Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.

~Chuck Close

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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 Close

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There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.

~Chuck Close

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Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

~Chuck Close

Topics: Around Clouds Ever Happen Highly Inspiration Liable More Often Overrated Part Salvation Sit Than Wait Work You

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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 Close

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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.

~Chuck Close

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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.

~Chuck Close

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

~Chuck Close

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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 badly.

~Chuck Close

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You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is.

~Chuck Close

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: July 5th, 1940

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