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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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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

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"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."

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"I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning."

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"Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people."

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"The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform."

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"Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people."

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"Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20."

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"People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers."

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"There are more fools in the world than there are people."

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"I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality."

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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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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
"I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant."

Life

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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
"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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"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."

Life

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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."

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

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

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