Representation Quotes

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

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.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

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

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

Anything can be painted without representation.

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

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

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

There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

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.

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

All poetry is misrepresentation.

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

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

...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.

The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to taxation with representation.

No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

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.

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

Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.

Any representation of God produces accordingly.