Quotes About Representation

My thing is when people say Dom Kennedy's music reminds them of L.A., I wanna do that 100 percent because at the end of the day that's all I am.

You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can't we see it in fashion?

Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him.

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.

We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on the plate.

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.

To hold as 't were the mirror up to nature.

We are humanity, the banner read. Wrong. We're pale reflections of it, weak shadows, distant echoes.

what we are we potray that in our deeds.....

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

I find a certain peace by thinking of me in public as sort of an avatar self. You out there can have the avatar me.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The map is not the territory.

Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.