Representation Quotes

Representation Quote of the day

Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves.

Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.

If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

As the print of the seal on the wax is the express image of the seal itself, so Christ is the express image - the perfect representation of God.

My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.

I consider myself neither legally nor morally bound to obey the laws made by a body in which I have no representation.

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.

he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

Anything can be painted without representation.

Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation is all we have.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

I used to say: "Everything is Representation Theory". Now I say: "Nothing is Representation Theory".

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.

The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe .

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society

The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.

Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.

Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the smallest weakness is easily seen.

Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

When the true qualities of photography are recognized, the process of representation by mechanical means will be brought to a level of perfection never before reached.

There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.

Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the Earth, as well as God.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.

Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.