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Chuck Close Quotes

1940–2021 United States

Chuck Thomas Close (born July 5, 1940, in Monroe, Washington – August 19, 2021) is an American painter and photographer. He achieved fame as a photorealist through his portraits on a massive scale.

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Ease is the great enemy of the artist. When you get too good at it, you just start performing what you can do and demonstrating it again and again.

There is the plaintive cry of the small child in most artists

A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

[On his aversion to being classified as a "photorealist" painter] No artist of any stripe likes to be categorized or pigeonholed or named.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Chuck Close (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.