The best Quotes by Chuck Close

The best Quotes by Chuck Close

Charles Thomas Close (July 5, 1940 – August 19, 2021) was an American painter, visual artist, and photographer who made massive-scale photorealist and abstract portraits of himself and others.

Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn't going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.

I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.

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

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