Chuck Close Time Quotations

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.

I mean, if you think about a writer, you're going to write a novel that takes several months, but there's never a time you're doing anything more than shoving one word up against the next. And clusters of those words make sentences and paragraphs and a chapter. You just try to maintain the same voice and the same attitude so it sounds like the same person wrote the last chapter that wrote the first chapter.