Chuck Close Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.”

“No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.”

“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.”

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

“I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.”