The work I’ve done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don’t know. I don’t know what I’m doing. — Philip Glass

It’s always a pleasure to talk about someone else’s work. — Chuck Close

I don’t work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. — Chuck Close

There’s something Zen–like about the way I work–it’s like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden. — Chuck Close

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don’t get a photograph that I want to work from. — Chuck Close

You don’t have to have a great art idea–just get to work and something will happen. So that’s pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is. — Chuck Close

You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That’s the only secret. — Philip Glass

One of Allen Ginsberg’s T–shirts said, ‘Well, while I’m here, I’ll do the work. And what’s the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow. — Philip Glass

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around. — Chuck Close

The past is reinvented and becomes the future. But the lineage is everything. — Philip Glass

I’m very learning–disabled, and I think it drove me to what I’m doing. — Chuck Close

I’d say it’s just part of the world that we live in; it’s part of the music world. — Philip Glass

I’m interested in what happens to music when other people use it. Whereas there are composers who don’t like anyone to touch their music, I think people should because they do things I can’t think of. — Philip Glass

There’s almost no content in terms of language at all. I don’t like using language to convey meaning. I’d rather use images and music. — Philip Glass

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music. — Philip Glass

I’d say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve’s [ Reich]. — Philip Glass

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

I’m plagued with indecision in my life. I can’t figure out what to order in a restaurant. — Chuck Close

I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn’t like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people. — Philip Glass

A face is a road map of someone’s life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there’s a great deal that’s communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been. — Chuck Close