Figurative Quotes
27 quotes by 27 authors
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A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the…
— John Keats
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And Christ was born into the world as the literal Son of this Holy Being; he was born in the same personal, real, and literal…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love... In a…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison…
— Yves Klein
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Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not…
— Oliver Stone
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The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring…
— Rob Bell
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Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is 'real,' but everything matters.
— Laurence Overmire
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The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it…
— Ad Reinhardt
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When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true…
— Richard Wagner
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What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists insist…
— Marlene Dumas
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A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old…
— Ambrose Bierce
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China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential…
— Richard MacDonald
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If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed figurative work for…
— Mark Edward
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I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes…
— Jesmyn Ward
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We connect the dots in the drawing with our mind. We give them a meaning, a figurative sense, which is self-reflexive in that it creates…
— Frederick Lenz
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I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But it was never…
— Gerhard Richter
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Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.
— Jason Babin
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With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and decided…
— Janine Antoni
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I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-figurative while I am still interested in the modern magic…
— Sean William Scott
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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 the…
— Mark Kostabi
Who Wrote These Figurative Quotes
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