Quotes About Representation

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

Be not a person only, be a message to the world.

Photography is never real, it's merely one of many ways of telling the truth.

Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

It's not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

Blood was its Avatar and its seal.

I am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.

Every country has the government it deserves.

...without equality there can be no democracy.

Politics is about listening and it's about leading.

Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.