Figurative Quotes

27 quotes by 26 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is 'real,' but everything matters. — Laurence Overmire
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched. — Jason Babin
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
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
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

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