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Quotes About Representation

Inclusivity is extremely important in any art form.
~ Sobhita Dhulipala
I was fortunate enough to go to an art school where we had a lot of different ethnicities represented.
~ Erika Jayne
I really believe that women run the art world.
~ Marilyn Minter
Coming from a very inarticulate family made me try to speak for those who can't express themselves and created a need for articulation at its most ceremonial - poetry.
~ Tony Harrison
It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature.
~ Honore de Balzac
A justiça é uma abstração, representada por uma reunião de indivíduos a todo o momento substituídos, e cujas boas intenções, cuja memória são, como eles, extremamente ambulatórias. As
~ Honore de Balzac
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
~ Honore de Balzac
CHANGING MINDS THROUGH REPRESENTATIONAL REDESCRIPTION
~ Howard Gardner
BEYOND SCHOOL: CHANGING ADULT MINDS THROUGH REPRESENTATIONAL REDESCRIPTION
~ Howard Gardner
A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out.
~ Huey Long
Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.
~ Hugh Laurie
We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.
~ Hugo Chavez
Weve been around for 500 years and never shut up, much less to a monarch. The king is the head of state just like me. The only difference is I've been elected three times with 63 per cent. We are equal as heads of state, be it the leader of the Indian State Evo Morales or King Juan Carlos of Spain.
~ Hugo Chavez
It is part of the established tradition in the use of juries as instruments of public justice that the jury be a body truly representative of the community. For racial discrimination to result in the exclusion from Jury service of otherwise qualified groups not only violates our Constitution and the laws enacted under it, but is at war with our basic concepts of a democratic society and a representative government.
~ Hugo L. Black
With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.
~ Iain Duncan Smith
When God became human, He made Himself into an image. By His own incarnation, He shattered the prohibition against art.
~ Ian Caldwell
There are times – they mark the danger point for a political system – when politicians can no longer communicate, when they stop understanding the language of the people they are supposed to be representing. The politicians of Weimar's parties were well on the way to reaching that point in 1930.
~ Ian Kershaw
There are times – they mark the danger point for a political system – when politicians can no longer communicate, when they stop understanding the language of the people they are supposed to be representing
~ Ian Kershaw
Democrats hold that governments are legitimate when those who are affected by decisions play an appropriate role in making them and when there are meaningful opportunities to oppose the government of the day, replacing it with an alternative.
~ Unknown
Even today, women are generally under-represented in mathematics and science, but it's no longer socially acceptable to attribute this to differences in ability or mentality, as several prominent men have discovered to their dismay. Nor is there a shred of evidence to support those views.
~ Ian Stewart
Human beings, on the other hand, are symbolic creatures. Inside their heads they break down the outside world into a mass of mental symbols, then recombine those symbols to recreate that world. What they subsequently react to is often the mental construct, rather than the primary experiences themselves.
~ Ian Tattersall
Their style of government is called Democracy. The purpose of which is that the meat is claimed by a few men and the bones are tossed over to the people. They resolve all their issues with power but call it mutual cooperation. Their rulers call themselves Peoples' representatives. People do elect them for governance but it is the power of their wealth that gets them to the seat of government.
~ Unknown
There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
~ Ice Cube
I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.
~ Idris Elba