Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things. Chuck Close Read Quote
I’m not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work – I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive. Chuck Close Read Quote
You don’t have to have a great art idea – just get to work and something will happen. So that’s pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is. Chuck Close Read Quote
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. Chuck Close Read Quote
I don’t care about the Guggenheim. The Guggenheim isn’t involved in anything that I am interested in. I don’t care about motorcycles and Armani suits. Chuck Close Read Quote
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. Chuck Close Read Quote
Of all the artists who emerged in the ’80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important. Chuck Close Read Quote
If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff. Chuck Close Read Quote
