Representation Quotes

293 quotes by 258 authors

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. — John Ruskin
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. — Robert Smithson
In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. — Susan Sontag
More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation. — Tom Vilsack
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. — Leonardo da Vinci
You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or… — George Edward Woodberry
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual… — Minoru Yamasaki
Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of… — Douglas Rushkoff
NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be… — Arthur Schopenhauer
PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation. — Edward Tufte
[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. [â€¦] The… — Neil Postman
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods… — Bertolt Brecht
...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are… — Mark Strand
Why do you love the woman you're in love with? Because she is. And that, after all, is God's own definition of Himself; I am… — Aldous Huxley
I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation… — Ian Mcewan
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that… — Paul Ricoeur
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… — Albert Einstein
In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it interacts with the… — Daniel J. Siegel
There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man. — Jasper Fforde

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