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....

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....

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

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

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....