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."

"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."

Chuck Close, American Artist

Portrait, Faces, Fact, First, Learning

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"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."

"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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"The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature."

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Personal Development

"I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house."

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Personal Development

"The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt."

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Personal Development

"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."

Portrait

"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

"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

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

Learning

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

Work

"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

"Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object."

Sculpture

"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

"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

"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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"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."

Author Name

Personal Development

"The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature."

Author Name

Personal Development

"I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house."

Author Name

Personal Development

"The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt."

Author Name

Personal Development

More

"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."

Portrait

"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

"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

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

Learning

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

Work

"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

"Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object."

Sculpture

"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

"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

"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