Representation Quotes

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.

Anything can be painted without representation.

Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.

There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.

When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.

...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.

Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture.

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.

The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.

In my work, we're not looking at an icon, we're not looking at a sign, we're not looking at a representation. We're looking at something. I do have this feeling of trust that people can read it for themselves.

Every representation, even of an orgy, is a sublimation.

I've never read a book on shape. I've read books on gesture; I've read tons of books on color, surface, field, ground, representation, abstraction. But I've never read a book on what a shape is.

Any representation of God produces accordingly.

I think every record, good or bad, is a representation of us.

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

We're highly adaptable and have developed some powerful systems of representation.

People learn who they are by the images of themselves, the representations that they seek.

The world is my representation

To me, food is a representation of your soul.

Look at Kate Moss, she's such an amazing representation of that peak '90s fashion of a slinky shimmery dress and choker. Fashion was playful in the '90s, and that's why I love music festivals as well. They have that playful essence.

I feel just as creative focusing on just the sounds and getting the photographic representation of where the sounds should be. But it's all the same bag of bones for me. It's hard for me to compartmentalize production and engineering, and that's why I can't produce things unless I'm also recording. It's very tactile. I need my hands in the dirt.

We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.