Quotes About Representation

photographed dressed as an Arab sheikh, in robe and headdress. The photograph is preserved among his papers, pasted next to another picture in which he is in the same pose but dressed in a tailored suit and expensive tie. One is labeled "East" and the other "West.

Tož demokracii bychom už m?li, te? ješt? n?jaké ty demokraty.

Perhaps I could put this to you too: that it is not only the decision that matters, I mean democracy is about how you do things, not just what the outcome is.

The right to demand the best and refuse the worst and do so not by virtue of your wealth, but your equal status as citizen, thats precisely what the modern Labour Party should stand for

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.

As lawyers, our first responsibility is, of course, to see that the legal profession provides adequate representation for all people in our society. I would suggest there is no subject which is more important to the legal profession, that is more important to this nation, than & the realization of the ideal of equal justice under law for all. RICHARD NIXON, IN HIS SPEECH TO THE NATIONAL LEGAL AID AND DEFENDER ASSOCIATION (OCTOBER 1962) [E]very

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

the church's fundamental task is to mediate God's presence as priests and to rule on behalf of God as kings and queens under God, serving God in God's mission. Our task is to represent

It would be years before it was operating the way a proper city should - which is to say, messily, but more or less freely and honestly, with its citizens accountable to one another and to those they've chosen to represent them, rather than to entities, spectral or otherwise, whose own interests are not in the interest of the people.

The Navy speaks in symbols, and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

Influence is having people follow you because of what you represent

we wonder what the fuss was about and aren't sure that our own government is doing any better, or even that it is a government that represents us. It seems more to be the government of an uneasy marriage between old orthodoxy and old revolutionaries, and such people have nothing to say to us that we want to hear.

There is, it's worth noting, no "Mom-with-three-ungrateful-children Barbie.

Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.

Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.

All art is self-portraiture.

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.