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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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Donna Grant

"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."

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Donna Grant

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."

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Donna Grant

"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."

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Donna Grant

"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."

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Donna Grant

"You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data."

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Donna Grant

"Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application."

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Donna Grant

"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."

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Donna Grant

"Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already."

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Chuck Close
"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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"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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Chuck Close
"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

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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 wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place."

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Chuck Close
"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."

Art

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

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Chuck Close
"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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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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Chuck Close
"I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing."

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