Chuck Close<\/strong>: I thought that using a palette was like shooting an arrow directly at a bull\u2019s-eye. You hope that you make the right decision out of context. But when you shoot it at the bull\u2019s eye, you hit what you were aiming at. And I thought, as a sports metaphor, golf was a much more interesting way to think about it.<\/p> If you think about golf, it\u2019s the only sport\u2014and it\u2019s a little iffy if it\u2019s a sport, although Tiger made it into a sport\u2014in which you move from general to specific in an ideal number of correcting moves. The first stroke is just a leap of faith, you hit it out there; you hope you\u2019re on the fairway. Second one corrects that, the third one corrects that. By the third or fourth you hope that you\u2019re on the green. And at one or two putts, you place that ball in a very specific three-and-a-half inch diameter circle, which you couldn\u2019t even see from the tee. How did you do it? You found it moving through the landscape, making mid-course corrections.<\/p> I thought, \u201cThis is exactly how I paint.\u201d I tee off in the wrong direction to make it more interesting, now I\u2019ve got to correct like crazy, then I\u2019ve got to correct again. What\u2019s it need? I need some of that. And then four or five or six strokes, I hopefully have found the color world that I want. Then I can sort of celebrate, you know, put that in the scorecard, and move on to the next one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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