Representation Quotes

293 quotes by 258 authors

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as… — Juan Goytisolo
You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way. — Judd Gregg
Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for… — Leslie Jamison
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my… — Susan B. Anthony
In UteroÂ is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time.… — Krist Novoselic
Many Americans do not realize that we could institute proportional representation for most elections in the U.S. without amending the Constitution. In helping to educate… — John Anderson
The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language. — Jayne Anne Phillips
I moved to New York between my junior and senior years of high school to just see what it was like, to go to a… — Teri Polo
The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes… — Camille Paglia
I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true."… — Bill Nighy
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… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world… — Stephen Jay Gould
picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three. — Ambrose Bierce
And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The… — Plato
If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and… — Pablo Picasso
The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with the presentation -… — Hans Hofmann
The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its… — Louis Aragon
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest. — Paul Cezanne
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and… — Paul Klee
The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained - trained by inferior and insincere visual representations. — Ben Shahn

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