Pictorial Quotes

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. Hans Hofmann
Art Complicated Creation Final Relation Astronomical Possibilities Would Take Combination Pictorial Concentration Explain Realization Act
Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone. Octavio Paz
Language Signs Pure Painting Everyone Seeks Recourse Attempts Shared Abstract Thus Pictorial Escape Essential Forms Meanings Languages
Pictorial is something that I am not used to. You have to pose, smile, bend your arm, straighten up, look to the left. Benigno Aquino III
Smile You Bend Something Pictorial Arm Look Am Left Up Straighten Your Used Pose
A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that. Dan Colen
Work Energy Painting Way Dip About Abstract Pictorial Line Lot Walking Using Things Watching
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment. Johan Huizinga
Power Judgment Pictorial Advertising Enables His Modern Average Exploit Suggestion
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. John Ruskin
Good Society Pictorial Diseases Done Representation Ever
'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end. Marcel Duchamp
Art Alien Thought Pure Own Painting Way Abandon Out Introducing Only Pictorial Dead Dead End Returned Sake Question End Decided Asked Elements Munich

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