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History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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Critical art is an art that aims to produce a new perception of the world, and therefore to create a commitment to its transformation. This schema, very simple in appearance, is actually the conjunction of three processes: first, the production of a sensory form of 'strangeness'; second, the development of an awareness of the reason for that strangeness and third, a mobilization of individuals as a result of that awareness. ↗

— Jacques Rancière

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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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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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Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

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It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing. ↗

— Joe Sacco

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