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Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble. — Chuck Close

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system. — Chuck Close

Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. — 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

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. — Chuck Close

Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things. — Chuck Close

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything. — 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

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation. — Chuck Close

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington. — Chuck Close

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

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. — 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

I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again. — 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

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

While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision. — Chuck Close

I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me. — 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 very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read. — Chuck Close

Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**. — 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

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840. — 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

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work. — Chuck Close

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. — 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

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing. — Chuck Close

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

If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces. — Chuck Close

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance. — Chuck Close

I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it. — 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

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

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good. — Chuck Close

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. — Chuck Palahniuk

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have. — Chuck Close

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. — 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

Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough. — Chuck Palahniuk

At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves. — Chuck Close

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you. — Chuck Close

I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw on the page. — Jim Lee

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

He has never won a game of Galactic Expansion against the repurposed interrogator droid. But he's close now. It's never been this close. — Chuck Wendig

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden. — Chuck Close

I don't care about the Guggenheim. The Guggenheim isn't involved in anything that I am interested in. I don't care about motorcycles and Armani suits. — 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

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real. — Chuck Close

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic. — Chuck Close

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost. — Chuck Palahniuk

You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp. — Chuck Palahniuk