Quotes about photography
photography art educational
I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system. Chuck Close
photography ideas process
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
photography views point-of-view
From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840. Chuck Close
photography art perception
In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
photography inspiration photographer
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
photography looks likes
I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around. Chuck Close
photography artist enemy
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble. Chuck Close
photography art way
You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same. Chuck Close
photography vision mediums
While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision. Chuck Close
photography attention maps
A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been. Chuck Close
photography expression photographer
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels. Ansel Adams
photography cameras abstract
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration. Ansel Adams