“Here we are cajoled into reading adjacent daubs figuratively, as melting body parts or mutant landscapes.”

“I liked moving the paint around, and I painted figuratively as an undergraduate student.”

“Superpowers flexed their muscles figuratively in the space race and literally at the Olympics.”

“The exhibit, which shows at the Society of Illustrators in New York City, features pages from the original Spider-Man comic as drawn by Ditko, alongside the noticeably less figurally awkward and much warmer style of Romita.”

“But it also recognizes that that true voice necessarily courts its own silence, figurally marking its limits at the borders of the unsayable.”

“In the years that immediately followed Raphael's death, Giulio's independent work became darker, figurally over-ambitious and compositionally agitated, almost precarious.”