Top 55 Quotes by Chuck Close

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

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.

I have no intention of flattering people. I like wrinkles and crow's feet and flaws, and somebody should know, if I'm going to photograph them, that's going to show up, you know?

Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.

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

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

Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.

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.

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.