Quotes About Representation

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Thus all Art is propaganda and ever must be.

We need more drag king role models for all those interested in the art

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

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

One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

Art is the consciousness of currency.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At least that's what I hope.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.

I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, "conceptual art," there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant.

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

Art needs to stand for something.

picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.

There is no gap between art and politics.

If you're making art, you are not separate from your brand.

Art has to be reflective of our society.

Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.

Making reality real is art's responsibility.

The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.