109 Quotes About Representation

The electricity of visibility awakens dormant queens.

Napoléon remporte une victoire en Espagne ; une députation du corps législatif se présente chez l'impératrice pour la féliciter. Celle-ci remercie les REPRÉSENTANS de la nation. A la lecture de ce mot représentons de la nation, Napoléon fait aussitôt insérer dans le Moniteur une note d'après laquelle lui seul représente la nation, tandis que les membres du corps législatif ne sont que les députés des départeméns.

To be present in history, even as nothing more than a chuckle, was a universe away from being absent from it, from being written out of it altogether. A chuckle, after all, could become a foothold in the sheer wall of the future.

I was no more than the garment worker who made sure the stitching was correct in an outfit designed, produced, and consumed by the wealthy white people of the world. They owned the means of production, and therefore the means of representation, and the best that we could ever hope for was to get a word in edgewise before our anonymous deaths.

You can't draw her because you idolize her. You keep trying to create a tribute. But these drawings aren't about that. They're the truth.

The moral vacuum that the University of Chicago Law School left was filled by my work representing Indian tribes.

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

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

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.