Meaningful Representation Quotes

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it.

Symbols can often lead to progress.

I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.

The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life -- but may be a penetration into reality...as expression of the significance of life, a stimulation to greater effort in living.

What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.

There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is bluffing and getting through a smattering of surface representation with no meaning.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.

My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of making meaning, to question the relevance of it.

It is necessary that the object that the artist is shaping, whether it be a vase of clay or a fishing boat, be significant of something other than itself. This object must be a sign as well as an object; a meaning must animate it, and make it say more than it is.

One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best. And unless you photograph what you love, you are not going to make good art.

Humans can really reveal themselves through what they choose to see as the most important or meaningful detail in an image.

The key to good art is to make something that means something to you.

I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing him into the contemporary day and age, that it really no longer had any meaning.

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.

Let's just say that I am aware my style has meaning for some people.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.

So much emotion is invested in symbols as opposed to substance.

I actually carry a little picture of a wolf in my wallet, rather like people carry a picture of their kids. The reason I do that is to remind myself why I'm doing this, to remind myself of the story.

Prateik means symbol so I symbolise certain things in my life.