Analogies Quote by Gerhard Richter

Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I…

— Gerhard Richter

You set your reality and carefully construct it so that it has a certain feeling, an energy. That's the vital, visceral thing about making…

— Mark Alan Stamaty

“analogy to illustrate this phenomenon”

— Anonymous

I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it,…

— Sarah Charlesworth

If I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it.

— Matisyahu

I've always been interested in visualizing something, whether it's a memory or an idea you want to be true. I am a big believer…

— Charlie McDowell

The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a photographic culture…

— James Balog

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost…

— Gerhard Richter

I see my work as having a relationship to the visual world, not just some emotive residue of my feelings. It relates to something…

— Elizabeth Neel

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

— Robin Morgan

I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging greatly from…

— Jean Dubuffet

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually…

— Flannery O'Connor