Representation Quotes

293 quotes by 252 authors

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace… — William Gibson
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… — Andrew Greeley
More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do… — John Grisham
I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page. — Cathy Guisewite
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. — Gustave Courbet
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… — Sheryl Crow
In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood. — Willem Dafoe
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has… — Guy Debord
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
The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes… — Junot Diaz
The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to… — Tom Hanks
As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself. — Martin Heidegger
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… — Edward Hopper
Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government… — Steve King
I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not… — Tony Kushner
If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation. — Rush Limbaugh
The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations. — Franz Liszt
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. — Agnes Martin
Taxation without representation is tyranny. — James Otis
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… — Sidney Poitier

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