Best quotes by Chuck Close on Work

Checkout quotes by Chuck Close on Work

• ‟ Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

  - Chuck Close
  

• ‟ 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.

  - Chuck Close
  

• ‟ I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

  - Chuck Close
  

• ‟ It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

  - Chuck Close
  

• ‟ Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

  - Chuck Close
  

• ‟ There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

  - Chuck Close
  

• ‟ Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

  - Chuck Close
  

• ‟ I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work - I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive.

  - Chuck Close
  

• ‟ 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
  

• ‟ I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

  - Chuck Close
  

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

  - Chuck Close