Chuck Close Quotes About Photography

Quotes about: Photography

• Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Use, Defining

• A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Needs, Attention

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Close" by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

• 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

  Photography, Vision, Hardest

• 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.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Art, Sound

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

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Artist, Enemy

  "Chuck Close: 'Important Works on Paper'". Interview with Stephanie Wright Hession, www.sfgate.com. September 4, 2013.

• I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Looks, Likes

• Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Inspiration, Clouds

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Close" by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

• 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

  Photography, Art, Mirrors

• Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Thinking, Space

• Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Frozen, Photographer

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Close" by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

• Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Reality, Want

• I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work - I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Needs, Way

  "Chuck Close: 'Important Works on Paper'". Interview with Stephanie Wright Hession, www.sfgate.com. September 4, 2013.

• In life you can be dealt a winning hand of cards and you can find a way to lose, and you can be dealt a losing hand and find a way to win. True in art and true in life: you pretty much make your own destiny. If you are by nature an optimistic person, which I am, that puts you in a better position to be lucky in life.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Art, Optimistic

• All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Ideas, Photographer

• 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

  Photography, Lying, Media

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Close" by Andy Ward, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

• 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.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Ideas, Suggestions

• See, I think our whole society is much too problem-solving oriented. It is far more interesting to participate in 'problem creation'... You know, ask yourself an interesting enough question and your attempt to find a tailor-made solution to that question will push you to a place where, pretty soon, you'll find yourself all by your lonesome - which I think is a more interesting place to be.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Thinking, Interesting

• I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Numbers, Giving

• 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.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Artist, Trying

  "Artist Chuck Close Talks About Corruption On The Art Market". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2011.

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

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Art, Looks

• 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.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Mind, Facts

• 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

  Photography, Perfect, Pieces

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

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Buddhist, Garden

• 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

  Photography, Eight, Color

• 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.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Kids, Age

  "Head master". www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2005.

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