Representational Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans. — Daniel Levitin
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things… — E E Cummings
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy — Robert Smithson
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
American commercial cinema has long been dominated by men, but I donâ€™t think there has ever been another time when women have been as underrepresented… — Manohla Dargis
Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus. — David Hume
I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound… — Jackson Pollock
Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules… — Anna Quindlen
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character… — Will Self
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' — Ludwig Wittgenstein
At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy… — Daniel J. Siegel
It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing. — Joe Sacco

Who Wrote These Representational Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 13 Representational Quotes as follows: