My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been…

You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by…

— Francis Bacon

“Imagination is not, as some poets have thought, simply synonymous with good. It may be either good or evil. As long as art remained…

— Owen Barfield

No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect…

— Mark Kostabi

I often avoid using the terms 'figuration' and 'abstraction' because I've always tried to have it both ways. I want the experience of looking…

— Cecily Brown

“We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves from the community by playing…

— Roland Barthes

I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.

— Kiki Smith

I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to me, whereas…

— Hilton Als

A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what…

— Eric Fischl

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges…

— Georges Duhamel

My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive…

— Joan Miro

I love the love that you see for 'Ted Lasso,' but there's also, I think, a kind of simplification of the show. Particularly from…

— Brett Goldstein

“our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We are for…

— Aldous Huxley

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Simplification seems to be the removal of objects for the goal of making a graphic as clean and uncluttered as possible. Whereas, with optimization,…

— David Mccandless

The brain, Schopenhauer says, is the 'one great tool' that has enabled a creature endowed with neither sharp teeth nor claws to survive in…

— Julian Young