Representation Quotes · Page 8

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

— Warren Jeffs

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

— Claude Simon

Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Rush Limbaugh

For me, it's important to be the representation that I wanted when I was a young girl.

— Danielle Brooks

I hate the idea that representation is a sign of goodness in a company.

— Julio Torres

To represent the nation, you must have multiracial representation.

— Lee Hsien Loong

Cinema is a larger-than-life representation. I wish to bring it to the small-screen.

— Johnny Lever

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

— Junot Diaz

What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an…

— Ernst von Glasersfeld

I think representation is paramount. It's really important to grow up and see humans moving through the world that show you possibilities,…

— Ariana DeBose

The representation of the tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in dependence on the sacred ark, for…

— Julius Wellhausen

I've never read a book on shape. I've read books on gesture; I've read tons of books on color, surface, field, ground,…

— Amy Sillman

Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.

— Rudolf Arnheim

When the true qualities of photography are recognized, the process of representation by mechanical means will be brought to a level of…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“We need our politics to resemble our people. On the people who run our cities, states, and country overwhelmingly look a certain…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts. I believe the hard part of building software to be…

— Fred Brooks

When I was thinking about these women characters, no matter how bad a person I am - a bad writer, my limitations,…

— Junot Diaz

I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a…

— Olafur Eliasson

Sara Blair's Harlem Crossroads is an important addition to the body of literature that currently exists about Harlem. It brilliantly illuminates the…

— Dawoud Bey

The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for…

— Whitney Chadwick

In magical thought the human body is the 'microcosm' (small representation) of the Earth, which is the 'macrocosm'. The Earth is also…

— Scott Cunningham

Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the…

— Immanuel Kant

“...But if we are to say anything important, if fiction is to stay relevant and vibrant, then we have to ask the…

— Michael Copperman

I feel a disparity between my life in India within the home and my life outside the home - my life within…

— Chitra Ganesh

In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was…

— Guy Debord

I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or…

— J. B. Bury

NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an…

— Philip Auslander

The issue of who gets to define the future, own the nation's wealth, shape the parameters of the social state, control the…

— Henry Giroux

Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it…

— Daniel J. Siegel

It's a proud tradition we have of a diverse representation from the Maryland congressional delegation.

— Kathy Szeliga

Major miscarriages of justice have occurred because of the absence of proper legal representation.

— Sadiq Khan

Without design, there may be representation, but there can be no art.

— Kenyon Cox

I don't think that's a fair representation of life, that you have to go to college and do well to get anywhere.

— Luke Perry

We want to make sure that anyone facing eviction has access to high-quality legal representation.

— London Breed

I hope that we always have diversity, that we have equality and representation every step of the way.

— Marsai Martin

More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.

— Tom Vilsack

I think there's more room for different representations of women within fashion imagery.

— Alexa Chung