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I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
— Chuck Close
Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.
— Chuck Close
Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.
— Chuck Close
There are very close ties between the Jewish and Mormon people.
— Chuck Schumer
I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.
— Chuck Close
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.
— Chuck Close
Sculpture occupies real space like we do ... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
— Chuck Close
Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.
— Chuck Close
I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
— Chuck Close
Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
— Chuck Close
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
— Chuck Close
Having a routine, knowing what to do, gives me a sense of freedom and keeps me from going crazy. It's calming.
— Chuck Close
In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
— Chuck Close
Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.
— Chuck Close
No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
— Chuck Palahniuk
There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.
— Chuck Close
I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.
— Chuck Close
Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.
— Chuck Close
Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
— Chuck Close
Every child should have a chance to feel special.
— Chuck Close
I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
— Chuck Close
All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
— Chuck Close
I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.
— Chuck Close
I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.
— Chuck Close
I love making art ... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.
— Chuck Close
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.
— Chuck Close
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
— Chuck Palahniuk
I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
— Chuck Close
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
— Chuck Close
The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.
— Chuck Close
I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine ... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.
— Chuck Close
I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.
— Chuck Close
No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.
— Chuck Close
