Representation Quotes
I want you to know he's coming to the church before he comes FOR the church. He's gonna perfect the Church so the church can be the Image, and be him, and be his representation.
Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.
When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.
For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.
We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.
The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.
...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.
Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture.
When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.
If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.
The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to taxation with representation.
I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.
Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.
I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.
I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.
Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.
During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.
As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
It is my sense of exclusion from representation that made me want to be a part of figuring out if we could make a difference.
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.
Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.
There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.
Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.
Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world.
In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.
The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.
Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.
In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.
Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.
The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.
A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.
Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.
