Art Quote by Trevor Paglen

It's great to represent things that are not represented.

— Thomas Bidegain

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

— Matisyahu

The language of images [of inner-oriented artists] does not follow a code structure that is evident and widely accepted, but is more likely to…

— Kenneth Coutts-Smith

A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

— Anonymous

“A symbol is always in general and, however precise its translation, an artist can restore to it only its movement: there is no word-for-word…

— Albert Camus

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

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“With the manipulation of abstract symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and, sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the…

— Jonathan Culver

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by…

— Naum Gabo

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct…

— Morris Graves

“As symbol, or as the structuring of symbols, art can render intelligible -- or at least visible, at least discussible -- those wilderness regions…

— Annie Dillard

By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly…

— Carl Jung