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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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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

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"If you can find your perfect job, create one."

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"Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time."

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"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."

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"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."

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"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."

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"I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital."

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"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."

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"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."

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"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession."

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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
"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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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
"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
"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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"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."

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