Quotes by : Chuck Close

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....

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....

Amateurs look for inspiration the rest of us just get up and go to work.

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

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around....

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....