Representation Quotes - Page 13

• Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Issues, Citizens, World

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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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• Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, Doors, Different

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.342, Open Road Media

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• As the print of the seal on the wax is the express image of the seal itself, so Christ is the express image - the perfect representation of God.

  Ambrose

  Jesus, Perfect, Christ

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• It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the Earth, as well as God.

  Warren Jeffs

  Should Have, Devil, Earth

  "FBI Adds Jeffs to 10 Most Wanted List". "Nancy Grace", edition.cnn.com. May 8, 2006.

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• Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bears to the entire population of the State. It is for this reason that I have never been in favor of restricting their representation in our State Senate to a strictly population basis. It is the same reason that the founding fathers of our country gave balanced representation to the States of the Union, equal representation in one House and proportionate representation based upon population in the other.

  Earl Warren

  Country, Father, House

  The San Francisco Chronicle, p. 3, October 30, 1948.

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• Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

  Gustave Courbet

  Art, Real, Painting

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• But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later I shall take you to a profounder level of representation in which the electron instead of being confined to a particular locality is distributed in a sort of probability haze all over the atom.

  Arthur Eddington

  Science, Usual, Atoms

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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• America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.

  Simon Hoggart

  Hero, Blue, Whales

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• So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

  Geena Davis

  Country, Thinking, Government

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• Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this country, of never submitting to the eye of the student, the figures on whose properties he is reasoning, but of drawing perspective representations of them upon a plane. ...I hope that I shall never be obliged to have recourse to a perspective drawing of any figure whose parts are not in the same plane.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Country, Eye, Science

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• 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." I like those kinds of backgrounds.

  Bill Nighy

  Technology, Thinking, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• 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 this representation.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Art, Expression, Sublime

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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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