Chuck Close Quotes

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.

Every stimulus becomes an opportunity to find fresh ways to express your personal vision.

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.

Talent works, genius creates.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I'm interested in creating new work.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

I just want to be able to be creative.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.

I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I was one of those kids who wanted to make my own clothes and take pictures of everything. Everything inspired me, and everything felt like art around me.

I just love his creativity; that's what I'm talking about as far as being unique and creative and different. Kanye is doing it.

I believe what Wondaland is doing is creating depth.