Representation Quotes - Page 4

• In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Real, Drama, Years

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p.27-28), 1991.

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• The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

  Steven Weinberg

  Beauty, Art, Groups

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• Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Ideas, Events, Artistic

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• It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiæ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Powerful, Passion

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• There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Teaching, Kids, Political

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• In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

  John Thorn

  Sports, Pride, Community

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• I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.

  Chris Ware

  Trying, Alive, Aim

  "The art of melancholy" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2005.

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• For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner landscapes, and it is the human soul that is visible through the landscapes presented in my films.

  Werner Herzog

  Soul, Mind, Desert

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Paul Cronin, 2002.

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• I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage... my picture is my stage, and men and women my players exhibited in a 'dumb' show.

  William Hogarth

  Player, Men, Dumb

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• Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the smallest weakness is easily seen.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Reality, Practice, Drawing

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• Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Artist, Order, Spices

  Rudolf Arnheim (1966). “Toward a Psychology of Art: Collected Essays”, p.40, Univ of California Press

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• The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.

  Paul Klee

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.192, Univ of California Press

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• The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its own sake and for the element of unpredictable perturbation and of metamorphosis which it introduces into the domain of representation; for each image on each occasion forces you to revise the entire Universe.

  Louis Aragon

  Vices, Use, Elements

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• The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Book, Eye

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• I moved to New York between my junior and senior years of high school to just see what it was like, to go to a modeling agency and see how to get representation.

  Teri Polo

  Senior, New York, School

  "Teri Polo: Teri on a Tear". Interview with Dennis Hensley, movieline.com. September 1, 2001.

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• The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.

  Mike Lee

  War, Thinking, Practice

  "Tea Party Senator Mike Lee: We Need to Change the Way We Spend Money in Washington". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 12, 2011.

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

  James Mangold

  Art, Reality, Supposed To Be

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• In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.

  Krist Novoselic

  Beautiful, Art, Player

  "Dave Grohl And Krist Novoselic Share Memories, Unreleased Tracks From 'In Utero'". "All Songs Considered" with Bob Boilen, Robin Hilton, www.npr.org. September 10, 2013.

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• I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, World, Arena

  Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

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• 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

  Effort, Analogies

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Character, Choices, Influence

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• In legal practice, in the representation of clients, I have always felt deeply engaged, serene, and not all inclined to stand aside. I have always done whatever needed to be done, and have usually gotten my way.

  Louis Begley

  Practice, Done, Way

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• The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Mean, Unity, Fusion

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• The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

  Paul Cezanne

  Giving, Vision, Originality

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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 Gregg

  Way, Claims, Knows

  "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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