36 Quotations by Chuck Close
- 21. It's been very gratifying to have people tell me that my work has meaning for them. And you don't re ...
- 22. It's the tension between the marks on a flat surface, and then the image built, that interested me. ...
- 23. Of course there are all the negative reviews, which also are incredibly important. Hilton Kramer hat ...
- 24. Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd mo ...
- 25. Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to ...
- 26. Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
- 27. The city continues to be a magnet for the best and the brightest that come here from all over the co ...
- 28. The only thing stupider than making a painting was making a representational painting, and of all th ...
- 29. There's a kind of prevailing sensibility in any given moment in time, so sometimes the art world gra ...
- 30. Vermeer was painting light. And so when you walk into a room where the other Dutch painters are, his ...
- 31. Very few people have written about what a work really looks like, especially once there were photogr ...
- 32. What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in fr ...
- 33. When critics begin to identify something that they see as a tendency, they tend to write about what ...
- 34. When I was walking around I was 6 foot 3, and people didn't tend to approach me very much, and one o ...
- 35. When you come up in the art world, whatever's in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming ...
- 36. You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is gr ...
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