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Words represent things but not the things itself.

— EwshyCrazyness

It sounds formulaic now, but at the time, I was interested in the difference between the thing and the representation of the idea of…

— David Salle

Its sometime easier to define something or someone by what it or they are not, rather than trying to define it or them by…

— Valtez Telpharaoh

Odd that a thing is most itself when likened

— Richard Wilbur

Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.

— Merrit Malloy

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to…

— James J. Gibson

Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of…

— Wallace Stevens

Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.

— Alfred Korzybski

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

— Andre Breton

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves

— Johann Georg Hamann

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

— James J. Gibson

Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about…

— Oscar Isaac