Neurologically, I'm A Quadriplegic, So Virtually Everything About My Work Has Been Driven By My Learning Disabilities, Which Are Quite Severe, And My Lack Of Facial Recognition, Which I'm Sure Is What Drove Me To Paint Portraits In The First Place.

-Chuck Close

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Neurologically, I'm A Quadriplegic, So Virtually Everything

Chuck Close

Neurologically, I'm A Quadriplegic, So Virtually Everything About My Work Has Been Driven By My Learning Disabilities, Which Are Quite Severe, And My Lack Of Facial Recognition, Which I'm Sure Is What Drove Me To Paint Portraits In The First Place.

Topic

Portraits

Firsts

Recognition

It's Like A Magic Well. You Think You Know Everything About [a] Photograph, You Think You've Gotten Everything Out Of It, And All Of A Sudden I See Things In It I'd Never Seen Before.

Thinking

Magic

Photograph