Top 55 Quotes by Chuck Close

I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.

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

I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.

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

You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.

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

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.

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.

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