157 Quotes by Chuck Close

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

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 only use three primaries, so the nice thing is I can't have favorite colors.

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 never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.

I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.