Quotes About Representation

obelisk's symbolic representation of the male anatomy, which shouldn't be overlooked. As my physician wife, who's never shy with talking about body parts, puts it when we walk through old cemeteries packed with firmly erect obelisks, "A lot of men were overcompensating for something around here.

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

Para alcanzar tus metas jugaste la carta de los símbolos, y nada más simbólico que la indumentaria.

Each thing in earth is nothing but an eternal symbol clothed in dust.

Fiecare lucru de pe pamant nu e decat simbolul etern invesmantat in colb.

It was a mission of celebration: never had two Mexican-Americans flown up in space on the same mission, and never did burritos shine so brightly.

the old Warner Bros. cartoons, that studio can go to la chingada. It's this studio's fault that gabachos always try to imitate Mexicans with accents more refried than a Taco Bell special.

In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle's estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual's gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

No hay fenómeno de más larga duración en la historia política de México que el intento de suplir con instituciones representativas, democráticas y republicanas el vacío dejado por el derrumbe del imperio español y la desaparición del rey como fuente legítima de autoridad.

In the class structure of this country, the role of Latino people is to build the movie set of white perfection again and again.

Hold still we're going to do your portrait, so that you can begin looking like it right away.

Woman must write herself and bring woman into literature

Men say that there are two unrepresentable things: death and the feminine sex. That's because they need femininity to be associated with death; it's the jitters that gives them a hard-on! for themselves! They need to be afraid of us. Look at the trembling Perseuses moving backward toward us, clad in apotropes. What lovely backs! Not another minute to lose. Let's get out of here.

As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron

There is not a single brand of realism. Your paintings can be true to nature but emphasize different aspects of visual truth compared to another artist. The way you paint is a record of how you see. It will still be accepted as realism. This explains why Vermeer or Gérôme are instantly recognizable. Each is attentive to different facts of nature. Those who describe realism as slavish imitation miss this point.

He who represents himself has a fool for a client." ~ Abraham Lincoln

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol, 1774

There was grace and mystery in her attitude as if she were a symbol of something.

The American constitutional system had been devised to prevent easy capture of the government by popular majorities.

She does her hair in an Afro like Cicely Tyson, that famous actress I seen on TV once, or Angela Davis, who I don't know exactly who she is but they say she's got guts and ain't scared of white people.