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.
From Chuck Close
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.
In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
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.
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 poor white trash from the state of Washington.
Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
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.
I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.
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