My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I often avoid using the terms 'figuration' and 'abstraction' because I've always tried to have it both ways. I want the experience… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
“We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves from the community… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Imagination is not, as some poets have thought, simply synonymous with good. It may be either good or evil. As long as… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
