Quotes About Representation

A ficção como sempre, ocupa um lugar secundário face à História; as mulheres reais são sempre mais complexas e mais contraditórias do que as heroínas de um romance, tal como as mulheres reais dos nossos tempos, como as de então, são muitas vezes maiores do que o retrato que delas se faz, por vezes maiores do que o mundo quer que sejam.

If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because he cannot show that such a man could really exist?

Something of this kind, I replied:–God is always to be represented as he truly is, whatever be the sort of poetry, epic, lyric or tragic, in which the representation is given. Right. And is he not truly good? and must he not be represented as such? Certainly.

But which stories do you mean, he said; and what fault do you find with them? A fault which is most serious, I said; the fault of telling a lie, and, what is more, a bad lie. But when is this fault committed? Whenever an erroneous representation is made of the nature of gods and heroes,—as when a painter paints a portrait not having the shadow of a likeness to the original. Yes

Melito representa los poetas, Anito los políticos y artistas y Licon los oradores.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

Tota est scientia ," he said. "Knowledge is all. It either is, or it isn't; you can't say some knowledge is evil because it's inconvenient for you. And anyone who claims differently has no understanding at all of what the Great Library represents.

Rely on the internet for how you look at the world, though, and you'll see the worst side of people represented far too much.

Rely on the internet for how you look at the world, though, and you'll see the worst side of people represented far too much.

Books cannot fight for themselves.

you find a law firm naive enough to represent you

You represent them?

I admit that I don't understand art that isn't in the least representational. But I feel no need to understand it.

because you symbolize his cockeyed

In a certain sense God has committed to every father the responsibility to embody, as a person, the ultimate revelation of the Bible, fatherhood. To be a real father is the most perfect depiction of God that any man can achieve, because it is the ultimate revelation of God Himself. In fact, every father represents God to his family. That is not an option! The question is, Do you as a father represent God rightly or wrongly?

I think the woman's side has been much better in Asia.

I told my team, 'I don't want to go out for Asian roles anymore.'

I hope my daughter will be able to see shows starring Asian people that has nothing to do with an Asian story.

The Asian culture has to be a part of what we see on TV and in movies.

A lot of people don't know the passion I have for Asian American cinema.

With 'To All the Boys,' it's not an Asian rom-com. We tried to tell the coming-of-age story of a 16-year-old girl who just happens to be Asian.

When you're 1 out of 5 Asian people on TV, all the pressure is on you and you have to represent.

I'm short. I'm so Asian.

There isn't a traditional background of Asian women playing sport, but that's changing.