Famous quotes containing the words function, theory and/or representing:
“Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
“A theory if you hold it hard enough
And long enough gets rated as a creed....”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.”
—John Ruskin (18191900)
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