At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the … - Chuck Close

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No woman should be told she can't make her own decisions about her body. If women's reproductive rights come under attack, I will be standing up for women.

Chuck Close

At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.

Color, Trying, World, Make, Know

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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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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.

Amazing, Painting, Photography, Space, Thinking, Transcendence

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

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Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

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I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.

Amount, Images, Information, Maximum, Subjects

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