Life Representation Quotes

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

If you want to be true to life, start lying about it

Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes?

When you're making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life.

I never understand when people say, 'Do you do comedy or tragedy?' I don't think they're very much different. They both have to be true, and there isn't a great play in the world that doesn't have funny parts to it - as 'Salesman' does, as 'King Lear' does. The whole idea is to reflect life in some way, which means surely you have to have both.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!

When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.

I don't think that's a fair representation of life, that you have to go to college and do well to get anywhere.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life - that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal is, and then get there with a setback, but that's not really how life is or what a story necessarily wants to be.

I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, when I do, it is very interesting to slap people in the face with just an absolute of life.

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by using mass communication techniques.. .Better than handing out all kinds of wise advice, he could show life itself; he could awake forces lying dormant in everybody, he could launch an invitation to create direct and personal experiences.