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.
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
Any representation of God produces accordingly.
Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.
All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.
Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.
It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God.
People learn who they are by the images of themselves, the representations that they seek.
Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. . . . Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which serves for the foundation of all external intuitions.
. . . 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.
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.
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.
I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.
I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.
It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected, possess afterwards, as a parliament, unlimited powers. Election, in this case, becomes separated from representation, and the candidates are candidates for despotism.
Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.