Figuration Quotes

#1. No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the historical river of figuration. I predict that in 50 years and in 300 years, figurative art will still be strong and important.

Mark Kostabi

#2. My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.

Joan Miro

#3. A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.

Eric Fischl

#4. Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.

Octavio Paz

#5. You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

Francis Bacon

#6. If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.

Colin Farrell

#7. Don't men in the South have gray hair? she asked.
Yes, but their mothers are blonde.

Maryln Schwartz

#8. Happiness is a moving target.

Kinky Friedman

#9. I've discovered that most critics themselves are cinematically illiterate. They don't really know much about movies. They don't know the history. They don't know the technology. They don't know anything. So for them to try to analyze it, they're lost.

George Lucas

#10. When families are strong, America is strong.

Hillary Clinton

#11. I love lingerie and feminine things. It makes me feel nice look good and turn somebody on by doing so. It's an incredible rush. And when it turns a man on - fantastic. But no matter what, I'm getting off.

Lorri Bagley