Chuck Close Quotes About Photography

• Nunca dejes que nadie defina de lo que eres capaz utilizando parámetros que no se aplican a ti.

  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

• Tal y como se enseña la historia del arte, a menudo no hay nada que te diga por qué el cuadro es genial. La descripción de una pintura pésima y la descripción de una gran pintura sonarán muy parecidas.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Art, Sound

• La facilidad es enemiga del artista. Cuando las cosas se ponen demasiado fáciles, tienes problemas.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Artist, Enemy

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

• Siempre he pensado que una de las razones por las que a un pintor le gusta especialmente que otros pintores miren su obra es la experiencia compartida de haber empujado la pintura.

  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.

• A los artistas no les molesta descubrir que utilizaban lentes o espejos u otros medios auxiliares, pero sí a los historiadores del arte.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Art, Mirrors

• La pintura es el más mágico de los medios. La trascendencia es realmente asombrosa para mí cada vez que voy a un museo y veo cómo alguien descubrió otra forma de frotar tierra coloreada sobre una superficie plana y hacer espacio donde no lo hay o hacerte pensar en una experiencia vital.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Thinking, Space

• Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

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  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

• You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Yesterday, Today

• I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Memories, Thinking

• 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

  Photography, Real, Photographer

  "Conversation: Chuck Close, Christopher Finch". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 2, 2010.

• 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.

• En la vida te pueden dar una mano ganadora y encontrar la manera de perder, y te pueden dar una mano perdedora y encontrar la manera de ganar. Tanto en el arte como en la vida, uno se labra su propio destino. Si eres una persona optimista por naturaleza, como es mi caso, tienes más posibilidades de tener suerte en la vida.

  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

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