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

Chuck Close, American Artist
Work, Want
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"Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from."

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"Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object."
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"I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing."
Learning,
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"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."
Experience, Work, Thought
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"I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings."
Colors, Oil
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"I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is."
Information,
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"I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have."
People, Decisions
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"It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians."
Art, Artists, Historians
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"It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work."
Work, Pleasure, Talk
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"Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience."
Life, Experience, Time, Painting
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"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."
Art, Work, Decision

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