Chuck Close

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Inspiration is for amateurs-the rest of us just show up and get to work.

Chuck Close

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Topic

Artistic process Inspiration Self-discipline Hard work Art

Speaker

Chuck Close

Source

Inside the Painter's Studio

Medium

Interview

Language

English

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Citation

Close, Chuck. Inside the Painter's Studio. Princeton Architectural Press, 2009. Originally spoken during an interview with Joe Fig, 2009.

What is it about people that since the dawn of time we've wanted to mark our presence so that other people will see it?

Chuck Close

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Sources of art Art Human nature

Speaker

Chuck Close

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Close, Chuck. Quoted in Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere. Random House, 1998. Originally spoken during an interview with Michael Kimmelman, 1998.