Representation Quotes

The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.