#representation

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question. ↗

— Peter Straub

#apparent #authority #call #could #events

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#am #apart #art #day #day to day

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful. ↗

— Otto Dix

#everything #i #making #obsessed #representations

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. ↗

— Steve King

#constitutional #constitutional republic #crafted #democracy #failures

With representation there to do the speaking, the guilty are suddenly given the freedom that comes with hiding behind the fact that they never said that - in fact, they never said anything! ↗

— Michael Musto

#behind #comes #fact #freedom #given

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#belief #beliefs #center #cooperation #dedication

I have often misunderstood men grossly, and I have misrepresented them when I understood them, sacrificing sense to make a phrase. Here, of course, is where even the most conscientious critic often goes aground; he is apt to be an artist before he is a scientist, and the impulse to create something passionately is stronger in him than the impulse to state something accurately. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#misrepresentation #misunderstanding #men

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

— Balthus

#attempt #best #better #even #find

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#attention #bound #care #determined #hold

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. ↗

— Guy Debord

#conditions #directly #everything #immense #into