36 Quotations by Chuck Close
- 1. All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

- 2. I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look ...

- 3. I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... most of the pleasure is in getting the las ...

- 4. I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. Yo ...

- 5. I don't do commissioned portraits and I don't paint college presidents. I can't imagine what kind of ...

- 6. I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, a ...

- 7. I love what used to be called women's work. When women make quilts or something like that, it was so ...

- 8. I mean, if you think about a writer, you're going to write a novel that takes several months, but th ...

- 9. I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them ...

- 10. I tried to, with a series of self-imposed limitations, back myself into my own personal corner where ...

- 11. I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled ...

- 12. I was living in Rome for a couple of months, a few years ago. In fact, I had sort of made a pilgrima ...

- 13. I wasn't athletic, I couldn't catch a ball, I couldn't throw a ball, I had all kinds of physical lim ...

- 14. I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.

- 15. I've said it's a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magi ...

- 16. If you ask yourself a personal enough question, your response is more likely to be personal, and tha ...

- 17. If you think about the way a composer would go in a room and score, let's say, the oboe's gonna play ...

- 18. In between those early ones and what I'm doing now, there were all kinds of pieces in which I tried ...

- 19. In Europe, there's a very different attitude towards art-you're sort of given your whole life to mak ...

- 20. It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

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