#presentation

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. ↗

— Agnes Martin

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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

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Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face. ↗

— Faith Ringgold

#around #because #carry #coming #face

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. ↗

— John Ruskin

#done #ever #good #pictorial #representation

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment. ↗

— George Saunders

#actually #consciousness #course #create #day

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off? ↗

— George Saunders

#days #doing #each #evil #find

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question. ↗

— Peter Straub

#apparent #authority #call #could #events

I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations. ↗

— Hugh Hopper

#i #mathematician #representations #stuck

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation. ↗

— Fletcher Knebel

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