Asks Quote by Eric Fischl

You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by…

— Francis Bacon

“Imagination is not, as some poets have thought, simply synonymous with good. It may be either good or evil. As long as art remained…

— Owen Barfield

My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.

— Joan Miro

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…

— Mark Kostabi

I often avoid using the terms 'figuration' and 'abstraction' because I've always tried to have it both ways. I want the experience of looking…

— Cecily Brown

“We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves from the community by playing…

— Roland Barthes

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges…

— Georges Duhamel

I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to me, whereas…

— Hilton Als

I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.

— Kiki Smith

In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award…

— Steven Pinker

Yet, it had been Dimitri’s gentleness and thoughtfulness mixed with that deadliness that made him so wonderful. The same hands that wielded stakes with…

— Richelle Mead

If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago.…

— Fritjof Capra