157 Quotes by Chuck Close

I’m poor white trash from the state of Washington.

Neurologically, I’m a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I’m sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

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.

Painting is a lie. It’s the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

I absolutely hate technology, and I’m computer illiterate, and I never use any labor-saving devices although I’m not convinced that a computer is a labor-saving device.

If it looks like art, chances are it’s somebody else’s art.

The thing that interests me about photography, and why it’s different from all other media, is that it’s the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.

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.

At the same time that I’m finding the color world I want, I’m also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.