Chuck Close Quotes

In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying th...

I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw ...

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled...

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still us...

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my lear...

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process t...

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to...

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another pe...

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where the...

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait aroun...

A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's froze...

There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also...

Amateurs look for inspiration the rest of us just get up and go to work.