Best quotes by Chuck Close on Art

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• ‟ In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

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• ‟ Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

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• ‟ You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

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• ‟ Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

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• ‟ It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

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• ‟ You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is.

  - Chuck Close