All CHUCK CLOSE Quotes about “Photography”

“Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that donâ€™t apply to you.”
“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.”
“While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.”
“Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.”
“I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.”
“Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.”
“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.”
“I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.”
“There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.”
“The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.”
“I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”
“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.”

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