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IPSE DIXIT

MILTON GLASER - Graphiker/Artist/Designer
...i'm totaly obsessed with the idea of drawing as beeing the fondamental tool and instrument by wich you understand what are you looking at and there is no replacement for that. The idea of looking at something, letting it enter into your brain, transforming it, moving at under a neurological path to your hand, moving your hand to create something that can be evaluated by your brain and correct it, that conversation between the mind and the hand seems to me is the way we learn what is real and the issue in the art very often is that question, 'what is real?'. People spend their entire life try to learn how to drow and then after years and years of effort they finally discover that they can succesfully represent accurately what is in front of them... at the same time they learn that this is not the point, that is only the beginning of the real point wich is how to engage what is real.

...creation of a puzzle is one of the tools you have to make people understand thinks, when they activate the mind trying to figure something out, they luckily hold it and would remember and respond to it more than if they were told something directly...

CHUCK CLOSE - Artist
...the world realist gives me problems because in a way i'm not really trying to make something real, i can't make a nose, i don't go in my studio and i say 'i want to make a nose today'. All the willing about the happenn, is going to make any diferences, the only way that i can accomplished what i want to is to understand not the reality of what i'm dealing with, but the artificiality of what it is...

...one of the think that i wanted was to make every sqare inch of the painting as important every other square inch...

JEFF KOONS - Artist
...one of the first things an artist learn to do, is to create a personal kind of ichonography, you develop a personal vocabulary to work with...

...what art is able to do, is about acceptance, people talk about esthetics and all this different things, but at the end of the day, what art really is, is a veichle of acceptance, first you accept yourself and eventually, the higer state, is the acceptance of others.