"Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work." Artist Chuck Close says this, and a whole lot more, in the Charlie Rose Brain Series, Episode Twelve: Creative Brain. Well worth the hour it takes to watch, this episode brings Close together with artist Richard Serra, neurologist Oliver Sacks, Ann Temkin, chief curator of painting and sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art and Eric Kandel of Columbia University.
A few questions and quotes to pique your interest....
How does the new occur?
Is there a difference between scientific creativity and artistic creativity?
How does Chuck Close's face-blindness (he cannot recognize faces) contribute to his work as an artist?
What does Richard Serra's understanding of and fascination with how his sculptural works impact the space around them say about his brain?
"You can't have anything new until a great deal of it has become automatic and second-nature." (Oliver Sacks)
"Systems and limitations free up intuition." (Chuck Close)
"It's always in the process of working itself that ideas lead to other ideas for me." (Richard Serra)
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