Art Quote by Dee Rees

If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or separate; Othered.…

— Mae Martin

I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

— Carl Andre

I am an artist, and I have a lot more to offer than just being a one-dimensional character, and I think our audience sees…

— Rusev

And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound.…

— Plato

“If all, or almost all, the plays that are popular now, imaginative works as well as historical ones, are known to be nonsense and…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Representation means having characters with layers, showing them as human beings, so we can relate or have mixed emotions for that character.

— Jon M. Chu

Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint…

— Kathryn Bigelow

Too often, if you look back through the history of representation and you take the work of African-American artists, the work is on such…

— Kerry James Marshall

In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

— Junot Diaz

The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy,…

— Ryan Hurst

My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something…

— Samuel Beckett

It is ultimately character that underwrites art.

— Anne Truitt