Chuck Close, Philip Glass Tapestry, State II, 2006 - Jacquard Tapestry. Courtesy Magnolia Editions, Oakland, CA. © Chuck Close, Courtesy PaceWildenstein, New York. Photo by Donald Farnsworth.
“I never really think of me as the picture, in fact it’s always just been an image. It’s an image that happens to be me. I don’t feel attached to it at all. Though other people might say, there’s Phil, but I never say that. I don’t think when Monet was doing haystacks, the haystacks thought, hey I’m the haystack — it’s just another haystack! I don’t think it was a portrait in the sense that when Rembrandt did a portrait or when Van Gogh did a portrait those portraits were partly to reveal some character of the person — those portraits were about the person. If this is a portrait at all, and I don’t think it is, its not about revealing the portrait of the person. It’s about revealing the artist.”
