Chuck Close Quotes

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.

I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.

Every child should have a chance to feel special.

I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.

I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

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

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.

I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.

I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional way.

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.

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

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.