Quotes by : Chuck Close

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled....

A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen.....

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning....

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to....

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there....

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use....

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

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that....

In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that....

There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also....