Representational Quotes

The only thing stupider than making a painting was making a representational painting, and of all the genres the most dead and seemingly bankrupt was portraiture. - Chuck Close

The key thing is representational memory. If you want to discriminate pain from hunger, from vision, or from any other sensational experience, you need to be able to label it in some way, and that will come from interactions with the primary caregiver. - Stuart Derbyshire

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat. - Anna Quindlen

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' - Ludwig Wittgenstein

It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing. - Joe Sacco

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge. - Jackson Pollock

I'm not trying to capture the representational world. There's so much emotion dispersed through color. I want the images to be kinetic and to have feeling. - Steve Hidinger

If you look at the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection now, it doesn't tell the story of what was happening during the '30s and '40s. While Myron prefers the representational, I think you can see he likes artists who pushed realism as close to abstraction as possible. - Elizabeth Armstrong

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. - Robert Smithson