Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.
Our representation of the standard criminal might be based on the properties of those less intelligent ones who were caught.
There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.
Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.
I've seen so many screw-ups of representations of South Africa, and it makes me so angry every time.
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.
Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
I liked the fact that there were so many different representations of black women and black men in the movie. It wasn't like we all had the same agenda.
The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.
Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
Everything in the seen world is a dim reflection or representation of the unseen world.
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
