Quotes About Representation

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

Realism and art cannot live together.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

Our jobs as artists is to make sure our art tells a real story and let people see themselves in these characters. It's about having a conversation about being better people.

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.

The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.

If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists.

Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.

It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will.

If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them.

cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event

there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust

The map is more interesting than the territory.

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.

A work of art cannot be satisfied with being a representation it should be a presentation.

England did not become a democracy after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Far from it. Only a small fraction of the population had formal representation, but crucially, she was pluralistic. Once pluralism was enshrined, there was a tendency for the institutions to become more inclusive over time, even if this was a rocky and uncertain process. In

While Bigge was trying to turn back the clock, ex-convicts and their sons and daughters were demanding greater rights. Most important, they realized, again just as in the United States, that to consolidate their economic and political rights fully they needed political institutions that would include them in the process of decision making. They demanded elections in which they could participate as equals and representative institutions and assemblies in which they could hold office. The

We saw in the previous chapter how the process of political centralization under the Tudor monarchy in England increased demands for voice and representation by different local elites in national political institutions as a way of staving off this loss of political power. A stronger Parliament was created, ultimately enabling the emergence of inclusive political institutions. But

Solamente cuando muchos individuos y grupos tienen voz en las decisiones y el poder político para sentarse en la mesa, empieza a tener sentido la idea de que todos deben ser tratados con justicia.

You see pictures of Buddha and he's sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but not powerless. But leave it to Christians to have a dead and bloody man nailed to a cross.

It was no longer exotic to have a gay presidential candidate. In fact, since the advent of the Indiana mayor—never president but now a senator—no presidential election had been without one. Though, to be sure, every gay candidate had been in a certain mold—

Mum has made a little model of Dad - it looks nothing like him, of course, at least not when I compare it with his photographs, but somehow it seems to be more like him than the photographs do.