quotes about Representation
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Anything can be painted without representation.
-- Agnes Martin -
There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.
-- Claude Simon -
I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.
-- Emma Stone -
When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.
-- Gerhard Richter -
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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 moved away into a representation.
-- Guy DebordSource : Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.30, Bread and Circuses Publishing
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All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.
-- Guy DebordSource : Guy Debord (1994). “The Society of the Spectacle”, Zone Books (NY)
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Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.
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The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.
-- Jeff HawkinsSource : "Jeff Hawkins Develops a Brainy Big Data Company" by Quentin Hardy, bits.blogs.nytimes.com. November 28, 2012.
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You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.
-- Judd GreggSource : "GOP Senator Rips Into MSNBC Host For 'Absurd,' 'Dishonest,' Statements". "It's the Economy" with Contessa Brewer and Melissa Francis, www.newsbusters.org. January 28, 2010.
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When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.
-- Medard Boss -
I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.
-- Otto Dix -
Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted...
-- Sigfried GiedionSource : Sigfried Giedion (1962). “The Eternal Present: The beginnings of art”, [New York
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I think every record, good or bad, is a representation of us.
-- Stevie JacksonSource : "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.
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In my work, we're not looking at an icon, we're not looking at a sign, we're not looking at a representation. We're looking at something. I do have this feeling of trust that people can read it for themselves.
-- Amy Sillman -
I've never read a book on shape. I've read books on gesture; I've read tons of books on color, surface, field, ground, representation, abstraction. But I've never read a book on what a shape is.
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Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture.
-- Craig OwensSource : Craig Owens, Scott Stewart Bryson (1994). “Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture”, p.91, Univ of California Press
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We're highly adaptable and have developed some powerful systems of representation.
-- Dale Jamieson -
The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.
-- Douglas CrimpSource : Douglas Crimp, Louise Lawler (1995). “On the Museum's Ruins”, p.119, MIT Press
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People learn who they are by the images of themselves, the representations that they seek.
-- Harry LennixSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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To me, food is a representation of your soul.
-- Margaret Chapman -
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We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.
-- Shawn Amos -
Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.
-- Martha Rosler -
I feel just as creative focusing on just the sounds and getting the photographic representation of where the sounds should be. But it's all the same bag of bones for me. It's hard for me to compartmentalize production and engineering, and that's why I can't produce things unless I'm also recording. It's very tactile. I need my hands in the dirt.
-- John CongletonSource : Source: www.wbur.org