Representation Quotes - Page 12

• ... despite the limitations and problems inherent to photographic representation (and especially the representation of politics), it remains for me the most powerful and engaging medium today - one central to the development of cultural dialogue.

  Richard Misrach

  Powerful, Development, Today

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• The genocidal culture's image of woman as object and victim is paralleled by contemporary representations that continually show the Earth as a toy, machine, or violated object, as well as by the religious and scientific ideology that legitimates the possession, contamination, and destruction of Mother Earth.

  Jane Caputi

  Mother, Religious, Culture

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• I see my work as a series of attempts to ruin certain representations and to welcome a female spectator into the audience of men. If this work is considered incorrect, all the better, for my attempts aim to undermine that singular pontificating male voice-over which correctly instructs our pleasures and histories or lack of them.

  Barbara Kruger

  Men, Voice, Males

  Barbara Kruger (1994). “Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances”, p.220, MIT Press

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• Hip-hop is contributing to American society's misogyny and racism, hyper-sexuality anti-Black representations. Hip-Hop isn't setting the standard for misogyny. No one reduces the presidency to misogyny, although we've had misogynistic presidents. No one reduces our government to being solely homophobic, although we have a government with a don't ask, don't tell policy for gays and lesbians in the military.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Military, Gay, Government

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• Hip-Hop's cultural movement is much larger than the corporate representation. The images most of hip-hop's critics point to are those manufactured by major corporations whether on television, via Viacom, or on the radio, via Radio One and Clear Channel.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Hip Hop, Movement, Television

  Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. August 15, 2005.

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• In ordinary life, the phenomenology of embodied emotions is an excellent example for dynamic changes between transparency and opacity: You can "directly perceive" that your wife is cheating you, or you can become aware of the possibility that maybe it is you who has a problem, that your "immediate" emotional representation of social reality might actually be a misrepresentation.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Cheating, Reality, Emotional

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.

  John Green

  Clever, Drawing, Abstract

  "Fictional characters: Frannie, Hazel Grace Lancaster". The Fault in Our Stars, www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.

  Orson Scott Card

  Imagination, Tragedy, Bed

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Men, Eight

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.6, Sparklesoup LLC

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• What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.

  Ernst von Glasersfeld

  Knowledge, Independent, Reality

  "Contextualism in psychological research?: a critical review" by E. John Capaldi, Robert W. Proctor, (p. 10), 1999.

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• How can it be, in a country as strong and rich as this one, that tens of thousands of Americans who need legal representation are turned away every year because their government won't support the very program designed to help them?

  Ron Wyden

  Country, Strong, Government

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• I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body, a representation, to put it outside himself. A need to convert inner torment into some outward tangible wound that all could see. It was almost as though suicide were a last-ditch effort at exorcism, in which the person sacrificed his life in order that the devil inside might die.

  Phillip Lopate

  Suicide, Pain, Suicidal

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• In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don’t think there’s a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Thinking, America

  "An interview with accidental movie star Al Gore". Interview with David Roberts, grist.org. May 10, 2006.

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

  Otto Dix

  Beautiful, Obsession, Obsessed

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• Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal before his eye, and was thus able to estimate the construction and values of his representation.

  William Rothenstein

  Eye, Levels, Able

  Sir William Rothenstein (1934). “Men and memories: recollections of William Rothenstein”

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• The important role of union organizations must be admitted: their object is the representation of the various categories of workers, their lawful collaboration in the economic advance of society, and the development of the sense of their responsibility for the realization of the common good.

  Pope Paul VI

  Responsibility, Organization, Important

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• If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Wish, Answers, Contemporary Society

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• From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Perspective, World, Phenomenon

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.51, Princeton University Press

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• My photos are my diary. Every photo is no more than the representation of a single day. And each day contains the past and the projection into the future. That's why I feel compelled to indicate the date on every picture I take.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Photography, Past, Diaries

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• Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Law, Two

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Men, Views, Strange

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• 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 is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

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• picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Two, Three

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.163, 谷月社

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• 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 artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.

  Plato

  Art, Taken, Play

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• 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 sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Thinking, People

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