Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
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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.Chuck Close
It's the tension between the marks on a flat surface, and then the image built, that interested me. And I was always a dyed-in-the-wool formalist anyway. I think process sets you free, because you know you don't have good days or bad days. You just show up. You don't wait for inspiration.
Chuck Close
In Europe, there's a very different attitude towards art-you're sort of given your whole life to make your work, whereas here it's, what have you done lately.
Chuck Close
All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
Chuck Close
I mean, if you think about a writer, you're going to write a novel that takes several months, but there's never a time you're doing anything more than shoving one word up against the next. And clusters of those words make sentences and paragraphs and a chapter. You just try to maintain the same voice and the same attitude so it sounds like the same person wrote the last chapter that wrote the first chapter.
Chuck Close
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