Quote by Barbara Bolt

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

— Gerhard Richter

A picture is a model of reality.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.

— Bill Reid

“The age of the world picture is not concerned with a visual picturing, with mimesis, but rather with a modelling or framing of the…

— Barbara Bolt

A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have…

— Andre Bazin

There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture…

— Gerhard Richter

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which…

— Andre Bazin

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between…

— Alberto Giacometti

The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts,…

— James Jeans

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

Every model is a living sculpture - art in-vivo.

— Stephane Rolland