Representation Quotations

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

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.

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.

...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained - trained by inferior and insincere visual representations.

Anything can be painted without representation.

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

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.

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

Every representation, even of an orgy, is a sublimation.

Any representation of God produces accordingly.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.

What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

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.

I think every record, good or bad, is a representation of us.

The world is my representation