37 Quotes by Chuck Close about Photography

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    Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions.

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    If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.

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

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    I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.

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    The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.

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    Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.

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    In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

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    Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

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    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.

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