157 Quotes by Chuck Close

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

The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter – 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.

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 this person is and what their life experiences have been.

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

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.

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

I’m not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work – I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive.

I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn’t very good at it, and I don’t think in a three-dimensional way.

I’m very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.