What did Chuck Close mean by: I love making art… It’s largely how I see myself. I’m an artist; therefore I have to make art. - Chuck Close Photographer · USA Copy
+ I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Chuck Close, Cameras, Photography, 0 - Chuck Close Photographer · USA
+ I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Chuck Close, Suffering, Terrible, Tragedy, 0 - Chuck Close Photographer · USA
+ I don’t work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Chuck Close, Inspiration, Photographer, Photography, 0 - Chuck Close Photographer · USA
+ There’s something Zen-like about the way I work – it’s like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Chuck Close, Buddhist, Garden, Photography, 0 - Chuck Close Photographer · USA
+ Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Chuck Close, Defining, Photography, 0 - Chuck Close Photographer · USA
+ All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Chuck Close, Ideas, Photographer, Photography, 0 - Chuck Close Photographer · USA
+ I only use three primaries, so the nice thing is I can’t have favorite colors. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Chuck Close, Color, 0 - Chuck Close Photographer · USA
+ Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you’re in trouble. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Chuck Close, Artist, Enemy, Photography, 0 - Chuck Close Photographer · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
