Chuck Close Quote

I was living in Rome for a couple of months, a few years ago. In fact, I had sort of made a pilgrimage to Ravenna to see the Byzantine mosaics, and I was disappointed. It was so far away, so high up in the air that you couldn't see the individual tesserae. It was dark and sort of dramatic, and the glistening gold and all of that stuff, and I didn't find them very interesting.