Quotes About Representation

If Jean Valjean had me representing him," he likes to say, "then Les Misérables would've only been six pages long. Dismissed—Loaf of Bread Pilfery.

Treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, all in perspective.

When we speak of God as a person, we ought to be conscious of the fact that we use an allegory which, if it were taken literally, can only belittle him.

Symbols are not lies; symbols contain truth. Allegories and parables are not falsehoods; they convey information: moreover, they can be understood by those who are not as yet prepared to receive the plain truth.

We are called to be ambassadors of Christ. To be the look on his face, the touch of his hand, and the tone of his voice.

Computation is fundamentally a representational medium, but as we attempt to expand the ways in which we interact with computation, we need to pay attention to the duality of representation and participation.

For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.

I would read accounts of so-called battles I had been in, and they had no relation whatever to what had happened. So I began to perceive that anything written was fiction to various degrees. The whole subject-- the difference between actuality and representation--was an interesting one. And that's what brought me to literature in the first place.

The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.

In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.

In essence, it is not what it looks like but what it does that defines a symbol.

Design is the silent ambassador of your brand.

Design is the silent ambassador of your brand."-Paul Rand 6/3/17

By it's mimetic intention, the world of fiction leads us to the heart of the real world of action.

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

Paola Harris: Is it a grave mistake to think that you are the official voice of the Vatican? Monsignor Balducci: 'These ideas are mine, and I do not represent the Vatican. However, I am told that the Holy Father, John Paul II, has seen me on Italian TV several times and follows my radio homilies. If there were some objection, I'm sure I would know. I believe there to be no problem here.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.

We've got fourteen women in the Senate. Fourteen women in the Senate? We are 52 percent of the population. Apparently women do suck at math.

I don't want to imitate life in movies I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

Salen en lo alto de un monte ROSAURA, en hábito de hombre, de camino, y en representado los primeros versos va bajando

facilita precisamente la universalidad al abstraer las características concretas de las personas y hacer de éstas tipos que representen al mayor número de individuos y cualidades comunes.

your brand follows you wherever you go—be sure it's the you that you intend for everyone to know.

If representational visibility equals power, then almost-naked young white women should be running Western culture.