Quotes about photography
photography art optimistic
In life you can be dealt a winning hand of cards and you can find a way to lose, and you can be dealt a losing hand and find a way to win. True in art and true in life: you pretty much make your own destiny. If you are by nature an optimistic person, which I am, that puts you in a better position to be lucky in life. Chuck Close
photography art looks
If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.
photography buddhist garden
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
photography numbers giving
I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is.
photography way cameras
I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
photography artist photographer
There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.
photography two links
I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.
photography art educational
I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
photography ideas process
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.
photography way needs
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.
photography thinking interesting
See, I think our whole society is much too problem-solving oriented. It is far more interesting to participate in 'problem creation'... You know, ask yourself an interesting enough question and your attempt to find a tailor-made solution to that question will push you to a place where, pretty soon, you'll find yourself all by your lonesome - which I think is a more interesting place to be.
photography yesterday today
You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.
photography perfect pieces
I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.
photography real reason
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.
photography ideas benefits
Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions.
photography artist trying
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.
photography lying media
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
photography kids age
I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.
photography mind facts
I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.
photography eight color
The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.
photography mean people
Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.
photography being-sad use
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
photography differences doe
What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.
photography memories thinking
I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.
photography views point-of-view
From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.
photography art perception
In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.
photography art decision
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.
photography thinking museums
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
photography art mirrors
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
photography moving thinking
It always amazes me that just when I think there's nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities have been exhausted, someone comes along and puts the medium to new use, and makes it his or her own, yanks it out of this kind of amateur status, and makes it as profound and as moving and as formally interesting as any other medium.
photography inspiration photographer
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
photography media different
The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.
photography inspiration clouds
Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.