Concern Quote by Samuel Beckett

Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The figure is just the most represented tool to get thoughts and feelings across.

— Jason Shawn Alexander

A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have…

— Andre Bazin

That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

— Kim Edwards

Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this…

— Herbert Spencer

Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.

— Mark Rothko

“For him, the world was now a picture knocked crooked. He could barely judge the ground beneath his boots and the stars in the…

— Andy Davidson

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that…

— William H. Hunt

“Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation…

— Edward Said