109 Quotes About Representation

Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the storm. Obviously, it was not the storm itself that Turner intended to paint. What he intended to paint was a representation of the storm. One's language is frequently imprecise in that manner, I have discovered.

What finds its reflection in language, language cannot represent. What expresses itself in language, we cannot express by means of language.

Există ceva dincolo de reprezentare? Cunoașterea e o fereastră demnă de încredere spre real, sau doar un sistem de sticle opace și împodobite cu figuri care filtrează numai imagini false și umbre îndoielnice de adevăr? Există într-adevăr ceva îndărătul cunoașterii sau nu există nimic, ca și îndărătul vieții? Să fie oare numai o oglindă a ei însăși, scoarță fără trunchi, draperie a golului?

The ink in your pen never reshapes your thoughts, you must replace the ink before the ink can be inked properly.

Our children need to see themselves and others represented in the books they read, the toys they play with, and the media they consume.

Different is SUPER!

I just like to say I'm from London, I don't have any specific area I represent. I'm not representing for a small group of people. I'd like everybody to be able to relate to a nerd, because everybody's a bit nerdy. I'm more interested in that than in where they're from. I'm more interested in what people do.

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.

Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We tend not to write women as human beings. It's cartoons we're making now. And that's a shame.