157 Quotes by Chuck Close

And I think, you know, painters drop crumbs along the trail, Hansel and Gretel style, for people to pick up if they want to.

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

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.

The city continues to be a magnet for the best and the brightest that come here from all over the country and all over the world. It's a very vital exciting community. The art world gobbles up people and spits them out the other end and keeps chugging along.

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.

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.

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

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.

Every child should have a chance to feel special.