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Chuck Close

"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."

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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."

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"I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find."

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"I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them."

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"The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting."

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"These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information."

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"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are."

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"There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information."

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"You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer."

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"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."

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"If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost."

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"If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit."

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Chuck Close
"What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look."

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"You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same."

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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."

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Chuck Close
"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."

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Chuck Close
"Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow."

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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."

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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."

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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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"It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work."

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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."

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