All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are…

— John Green

Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.

— Emile Durkheim

“Representations that are made again on a later date are referred to as being "brought down.”

— Charles M. Fox

I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.

— Hugh Hopper

From the physical point of view, a man is nothing more than a system of cells, or from the mental point of view, than…

— Emile Durkheim

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

— Susan Sontag

People learn who they are by the images of themselves, the representations that they seek.

— Harry Lennix

One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples…

— Thomas L. Dumm

If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us…

— Marvin Minsky

“From *the form of time and of the single dimension* of the series of representations, on account of which the intellect, in order to…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In A.I., the holy grail was how do you generate internal representations.

— Geoffrey Hinton

“We tend to treat labels as real, rather than as representations of reality”

— Dewight R. Middleton

Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once…

— Peggy Phelan

“Intellectual representations are the activity itself, dependent on a kind of consciousness that is skeptical, engaged, unremittingly devote to rational investigation and moral judgement;…

— Edward W. Said

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

— Steven Weinberg