37 Quotes by Chuck Close about Photography
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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.
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Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.
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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.
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You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
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I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.
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I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.
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There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
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It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.
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