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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.

— Chuck Close

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

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[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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