Quotes About Figurative Art

#1. What interests me is all the stuff that goes into abstract and abstract-figurative art. Not the styles, but the stuff that, in various combinations, make the styles: mixing and matching painting methods and ideas.

Ed Askew

#2. Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which excludes the formation of any particular form.

Piet Mondrian

#3. We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

Salvador Dali

#4. When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.

Richard Wagner

#5. I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.

Antoni Tapies

#6. 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

#7. Leo," Amelia asked suspiciously, "what are you planning to do to her?" "Why do you always insist on asking questions when you know you won't like the answers?" "Because, being an optimist," she said tartly, "I always hope I'm wrong."
- Amelia & Leo

Lisa Kleypas

#8. There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

George William Norris

#9. When we overemphasise miracles we are saying people could get something without qualification and merit.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Seeing is believing

Alyson Noel

#11. With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and decided that rather than describing the body, I would use the body, my body, as a tool for making art.

Janine Antoni

#12. Holy communication, Holy life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Getting dressed for a woman is an art form, surreal, vaguely abstract, figurative and byzantine. When you undress a woman you enter her subconscious kingdom, her scents, her secrets and her fantasy.

Chloe Thurlow

#14. The kind of roommate who greets me at the door, who makes me dinner, who would bring me coffee and bagels every single day of the week if I asked her to.

Mary Kubica

#15. He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.

Alice Hoffman

#16. Paths clear before those who know where they're going and are determined to get there.

Leonard Roy Frank

#17. For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#18. Sometimes, we do not believe in ourselves until someone else reveals that, deep inside of us, something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, love, or any other experience that reveals our human spirit.

Jose N. Harris

#19. Intellectual capacity is related to the ability of solving problems in the
right manner.

Eraldo Banovac

#20. If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed figurative work for more than 30 years.

Mark Edward

#21. I love my fans, and I try to keep in touch with them as much as I can.

Victoria Justice

#22. No one can tell what the future holds, you're backs to the corner, you make the choice of how it goes.

Kenny Loggins