Quotes About Representation

I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important.

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.

Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.

A work of art is an exaggeration.

Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.

Art does not imitate, but interpret.

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

All our knowledge is symbolic.

We rappers are role models.

Art is nothing; it's a way.