Quotes about photograph
photography lying men
The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.
photography art flower
All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty.
photography art doe
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
photography frozen painting
Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance. Chuck Close
photography photographer pleasure
It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
photography buddhist garden
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
photography way cameras
I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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. Chuck Close
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