Representational Painting Quotes

#1. I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.

Robert Reynolds

#2. What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I see is a flat piece of canvas covered with colored patterns.

Terry Teachout

#3. I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could fit together. That was a really fun game to figure out how that worked.

Margaux Williamson

#4. Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

Bruce Springsteen

#5. Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired.

Joshua L. Goldberg

#6. Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents; but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas.

Aron Nimzowitsch

#7. She married him two years ago for love, or so she thought, and he's a good enough man but a devotee of household silence. His idea of marriage is to spray WD-40 on anything that squeaks ... The quiet only subsides when Harland sleeps and his tonsils make up for lost time.

Barbara Kingsolver

#8. Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.

Charles Bukowski

#9. The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural ... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.

Ben Nicholson

#10. However, I knew Mimi would want me to play, so I agreed to.

Ann M. Martin

#11. I think I've lived quite the unorthodox life so far, but you probably feels that way about yourself too. So much goes untold in our lives.

Connor Franta

#12. 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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#13. For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

Fredric Jameson

#14. Talent without work is useless, thank God

Mark Twain

#15. 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

#16. The wave rises. The wave falls.

Stephen S. Power

#17. We need time to lose interest in things.

Don DeLillo