List of Chuck Close Quotes

I Never Said The Camera Was Truth. It Is, However, A More Accurate And More Objective Way Of Seeing.

Any Artist Who Goes To Las Vegas Is An Idiot As Far As I Am Concerned. Whoever Goes To Las Vegas Can Stay In Las Vegas.

After A Few Days In Hospital, I Was Thinking, Oh, Gee - I Raised In A Church, Protestant Upbringing Which I'd Rejected As An Adult - I'm Lying In Bed Thinking, Hmmm, Maybe I Ought To Pray. They Always Say There Are No Atheists In A Foxhole... And I Thought, Here I Am In A Pretty Good-sized Foxhole... And I Thought Naahhh. I Wouldn't Respect Any God Who Would Listen To Me After I'd Rejected Him So Vociferously.

I Love Making Art... It's Largely How I See Myself. I'm An Artist; Therefore I Have To Make Art.

There Are Things About Signing On To A Process Over The Long Term That Protect You From The Buffeting Winds Of Change.

The Camera Is Objective. When It Records A Face It Can't Make Any Hierarchical Decisions About A Nose Being More Important Than A Cheek. The Camera Is Not Aware Of What It Is Looking At. It Just Gets It All Down.

Like Any Corporation, I Have The Benefit Of The Brainpower Of Everyone Who Is Working For Me. It All Ends Up Being My Work, The Corporate Me, But Everyone Extends Ideas And Comes Up With Suggestions.

If The Bottom Dropped Out Of The Market And The Artist Was Not Going To Sell Anything, He Or She Will Keep Working, And The Dealer Will Keep Trying To Find Some Way To Convince Somebody To Buy This Stuff.

I Learned You Could Suffer A Terrible Tragedy And Still Be Happy Again.

I'm Very Learning-disabled, And I Think It Drove Me To What I'm Doing.

The Reason I Don't Like Realist, Photorealist, Neorealist, Or Whatever, Is That I Am As Interested In The Artificial As I Am In The Real.

In The 7th Grade, I Made A 20-foot Long Mural Of The Lewis And Clark Trail While We Were Studying That In History Because I Knew I Wasn't Going To Be Able To Spit Back The Names And The Dates And All That Stuff On A Test.