Chuck Close Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.”

“You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is.”

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

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

“What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.”

“My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.”

“Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.”

“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.”

“I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.”