Quotes About Representation

If there are loud and angry people on only one side of a debate, it probably means the other side simply does not have a spokesperson.

When nature fails, we turn to art.

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.

Holography could prosper only in America, a country obsessed with realism, where, if a reconstruction is to be credible, it must be absolutely iconic, a perfect likeness, a "real" copy of the reality being represented.

conviene que las cosas divinas se representen más en la figura de los cuerpos viles que en la figura de los cuerpos nobles. Primero

We cannot initiate a dialogue between different cultures on identical class problems if we do not first resolve the problem of the symbolic superstructures through which different civilizations represent to themselves the same political and social problems.

TotuÈ™i, înc? de la început, sunt configuraÈ›i ca duÈ™mani nu atât cei care ne amenin?? direct (cum ar fi cazul barbarilor), ci aceia pe care cineva are interes s?-i reprezinte ca fiind amenin??tori, chiar dac? nu ne amenin?? direct, astfel încât nu caracterul lor amenin??tor s? le scoat? în relief alteritatea, ci alteritatea lor s? devin? semn de ameninÈ›are.

Duchamp stuck a moustache on the Mona Lisa, but he needed a Mona Lisa to stick the moustache on; and in order to deny that he was painting a pipe, Magritte had to paint a meticulously realistic pipe.

Ahora bien, desde el principio se construyen como enemigos no tanto a los que son diferentes y que nos amenazan directamente (como sería el caso de los bárbaros), sino a aquellos que alguien tiene interés en representar como amenazadores aunque no nos amenacen directamente, de modo que lo que ponga de relieve su diversidad no sea su carácter de amenaza, sino que sea su diversidad misma la que se convierta en señal de amenaza. Véase

What is frequently appreciated in many so-called symbols is exactly their vagueness, their openness, their fruitful ineffectiveness to express a 'final' meaning, so that with symbols and by symbols one indicates what is always beyond one's reach.

Ogni qual volta un politico getta dubbi sulla legittimità del parlamento perché non rappresenta più la voce del popolo, possiamo sentire l'odore di Ur-Fascismo.

I am under orders, as much so as any private in the army. The American people are my boss, and I have the job of finding out what they want, and doing it.

We have very few Congressmen and Senators who represent the public," was the reply. "Most of them represent the interests which put up their campaign funds last time and are expected to do it next time.

Ceci tuera cela

We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.

It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality.

No hero would ever do this. But books were only a reflection of real life, not the thing itself.

Emphasizing the body as art, these artists amplified the role of process over product and shifted from representation objects to presentational modes of action.

public defender's office, Epstein

That story always seemed very symbolic to me...Yes, but I forget what it symbolised.

Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.

It is really quite extraordinary that some people should speak to us of tyranny in the present Party: tyranny of bosses, tyranny of elected parliamentary deputies. I don't know what means the deputies employ today to exercise their tyranny, but at least you know who they are, and you can take their means away from them. From where will you take them tomorrow? From anonymities, from unknown persons, from masks.

He, too, wanted to tell the story of our adventure in his own way. Praise

I'm just a guy who was predisposed to be a cartoonist, who happened to make it through all the bullshit that comes with being poor and brown (from an interview in the book Attitude, 2002)