Quotes About Representation

What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.

Massoumeh Ebtekar is the highest-ranking woman in Iran's government, a symbol of President Mohammed Khatami's promise to promote women into high-profile positions.

There is a lot of contradictions of mermaids as a symbol. I'm always interested in contradictions.

The burden of being a constant symbol, of having to live up to a symbol of advancement, of progress, of being perfect in some way and always representing the destiny of an entire people - that is supposed to be invincibility. That's enormous.

For me, I want a president who is more than a symbol, someone who has ideas that I align with.

It's crazy that people are looking to me as a symbol like, 'Oh, he's the voice of the youth. He's this and this and that.' I feel like there's a lot of pressure that comes with it, when people look to you as the face of something.

Prateik means symbol so I symbolise certain things in my life.

For me, I can't play a metaphor or a symbol.

Asian men specifically have not been portrayed as the leading man or sex symbol.

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.

To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function.

The paradigm for intelligence was logical reasoning, and the idea of what an internal representation would look like was it would be some kind of symbolic structure. That has completely changed with these big neural nets.

The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it.

I find the English flag - the cross - quite frightening; it has very bad symbolism for me. Not just football hooligans but supremacists and the BNP.

Studio D has a lot of symbolism for me.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Symbols are important. It depends on how they're used.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.