Representation Quotes - Page 20

• [My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there was a broad range of possibilities and fairly unlimited utility for a black figure that didn't have to comprise its blackness in order to preserve a place in the field of representation.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Artist, Self, Order

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness to be a fairly pure category while blackness has to absorb an expansive reality of representation.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Reality, Blood, White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every revolutionary thinker in America, White, Black, Brown or Red, never got the true representation from the corporate-controlled media.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Media, White, America

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I'm a big advocate of music being an honest representation of who you are as a person and your perspective.

  Miguel

  Perspective, Honest, Bigs

  Source: us.napster.com

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• When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.

  Shailene Woodley

  Self, America, Failing

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Availability, People, Records

  "It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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• Susan Rice, she's distant. She is the UN ambassador, got nothing to do with Benghazi, not in the State Department. She has no representation at the consulate or at Benghazi, send her out there, and so Brian Williams said, "Why send you?".

  Rush Limbaugh

  Ambassadors, States, Said

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.

  George Saunders

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It'd be a shame to talk about the universe and not show some images of it, because we have some of the more stunning representations of our field relative to any of the sciences. But I don't use the imagery as a substitute for the insights and wisdom I can convey so that when you leave you say to yourself, "Wow, I'm a little more deeply connected to the universe, and I want to learn more."

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Littles, Wow, Fields

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I happen to be a twin. I grew up half of my life with someone who looks and sounds like me. And I believe it's possible to hold twin desires in your head, such as the desire to create painting and destroy painting at once. The desire to look at a black American culture as underserved, in need of representation, a desire to mine that said culture and to lay its parts bare and look at it almost clinically.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Believe, Black, Desire

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• One of the most pervasive mistakes is to believe that our visual system gives a faithful representation of what is "out there" in the same way that a movie camera would.

  David Eagleman

  Mistake, Believe, Giving

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.25, Canongate Books

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• Nobody thinks quotas are a great win for women - the win would be removing the discrimination and inequality that creates under-representation in the first place. But in the short term, alongside other measures, they can be an effective way to make progress happen faster.

  Laura Bates

  Winning, Thinking, Progress

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• Any representation of God produces accordingly.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Produce

  Joseph Chilton Pearce (2002). “The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality”, p.194, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• I myself share with the Conservative Party a profound dislike for such fandangles as proportional representation.

  Hugh Dalton

  Party, Profound, Conservative

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• When I reflect on the issues that black Hollywood has had with the lack of representation at the Oscars, I realized that we have a responsibility to tell stories that are meaningful for our history.

  Usher

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Issues

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• Succession planning often results in the selection of a weaker representation of yourself.

  Peter Drucker

  Planning, Results, Succession

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• Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Voice, Justice, Office

  "New Nationalism Speech". Theodore Roosevelt's speech at the Dedication of the John Brown Memorial Park in Osawatomie, Kansas, teachingamericanhistory.org. August 31, 1910.

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• I am convinced that an electronic machine, no matter how smart and intelligent, being still a mere spatial structure in concept, can neither innovate nor even understand the self-evident proposition: 'No spatial structure can be a representation of any feeling'. Such innovation can only be a work of a non-spatial mind, like a human being, and only such innovation, it should be acknowledged, can pave the way for further scientific achievements.

  Kedar Joshi

  Smart, Intelligent, Self

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• A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Mad, Novelists, May

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• Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

  Aristotle

  Writing, Mind, Speech

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• One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art will be, that it will enable us to introduce into our pictures a multitude of minute details which add to the truth and reality of the representation, but which no artist would take the trouble to faithfully copy from nature.

  Henry Fox Talbot

  Art, Reality, Discovery

  William Henry Fox Talbot (1992). “Henry Fox Talbot: Selected Texts and Bibliography”

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• ... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)

  John Ruskin

  Men, Hands, Tangible

  John Ruskin “The stones of Venice (cont'd) Seven lamps of architecture. Lectures on architecture and painting, delivered at Edinburgh in Nov. 1853. An inquiry into some of the conditions at present affecting the study of architecture in our schools”

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• Any dramatic series the producers want us to take seriously as a representationof contemporary reality cannot be taken seriously as a representation ofanything - except a show to be ignored by anyone capable of sitting uprightin a chair and chewing gum simultaneously.

  Richard Schickel

  Taken, Reality, Sitting

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• Can the vast technology beneath our gaze be anything but a representation? Any optical artifact... The city panorama is a theoretical (ie visual) simulacrum: in short, a picture, of which the preconditions for feasibility are forgetfulness and a misunderstanding of processes.

  Michel de Certeau

  Technology, Cities, Process

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• But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation is all we have.

  Edward Said

  Doe, Photograph, Lost

  Edward W. Said (2007). “The Edward Said Reader”, p.290, Vintage

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