157 Quotes by Chuck Close

The camera is objective. When it records a face it can’t make any hierarchical decisions about a nose being more important than a cheek. The camera is not aware of what it is looking at. It just gets it all down.

I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated – and that the most important thing was problem creation.

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn’t guarantee anything.

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