Representation Quotes - Page 17

• Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Expression, Drawing, Form

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• In the midst of wanton aggression, we still call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace and play their part in the development of the State, with full and equal citizenship and due representation in its bodies and institutions - provisional or permanent.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Play, Israel, Development

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• I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.

  Helen Suzman

  Fans, Action, Used

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• Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Character, Practice, United States

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• National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of the United States we certainly have returned to 1776 and 'taxation without representation.'

  Michael Moriarty

  Health, Law, United States

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• Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world.

  Seamus Heaney

  Self, Joy, World

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “The Redress of Poetry”, p.5, Macmillan

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• If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.

  Samuel Adams

  Land, Why Not, Produce

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• Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, Doors, Different

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.342, Open Road Media

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• As the print of the seal on the wax is the express image of the seal itself, so Christ is the express image - the perfect representation of God.

  Ambrose

  Jesus, Perfect, Christ

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• Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Men, Views, Strange

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• But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later I shall take you to a profounder level of representation in which the electron instead of being confined to a particular locality is distributed in a sort of probability haze all over the atom.

  Arthur Eddington

  Science, Usual, Atoms

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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

  Gustave Courbet

  Art, Real, Painting

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• Many agricultural counties are far more important in the life of the State than their population bears to the entire population of the State. It is for this reason that I have never been in favor of restricting their representation in our State Senate to a strictly population basis. It is the same reason that the founding fathers of our country gave balanced representation to the States of the Union, equal representation in one House and proportionate representation based upon population in the other.

  Earl Warren

  Country, Father, House

  The San Francisco Chronicle, p. 3, October 30, 1948.

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• It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the Earth, as well as God.

  Warren Jeffs

  Should Have, Devil, Earth

  "FBI Adds Jeffs to 10 Most Wanted List". "Nancy Grace", edition.cnn.com. May 8, 2006.

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• Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Men, Dramatic

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.263, e-artnow

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• Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

  Susan Sontag

  Imagination, Structure, Pornography

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.313, Macmillan

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• Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.

  Immanuel Kant

  Determination, Law, Hands

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• For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national and international art. History shows that it may well be the opposite. It may be that it is the odd, the personal, the curious, the simply honest, that at this moment, when everyone looks to the extreme and flamboyant, constitutes the most interesting manifestation of the spirit of art.

  Patrick Swift

  Art, Opposites, Interesting

  "Official Art and the Modern Painter". "X, A Quarterly Review" Magazine, Vol. I, No. 1, November 1959.

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• it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny' and that governments to be just should 'derive their consent from the governed.' The unanswerable logic of these two principles is responsible for the extension of suffrage to men and women the world over. In the United States, however, women are still taxed without 'representation' and still live under a government to which they have given no 'consent.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Men, Two, Justice

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• There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a certain number must be in accordance with true principles.

  Harriet Martineau

  Numbers, Principles, Taxation

  Harriet Martineau (1834). “Illustrations of taxation”, p.116

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• Reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention, where they could be held for years without any representation or charges, is distressing.

  Dana Perino

  Years, People, Innocent

  Dana Perino during Press Briefing, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 1, 2007.

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• [M]any people would accept that we do not really have knowledge of the world; we have knowledge only of our representations of the world. Yet we seem condemned by our consitution to treat these representations as if they were the world, for our everyday experience feels as if it were of a given and immediate world.

  Francisco Varela

  People, Everyday, World

  "The Embodied Mind". Book by Francisco Varela, p. 142, 1991.

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• For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous.

  Kate Millett

  Numbers, Political, Groups

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.24, Columbia University Press

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• Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Women, Flower

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• There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is bluffing and getting through a smattering of surface representation with no meaning.

  Emily Carr

  Trying, Way, Painting

  Emily Carr (2009). “Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr and Other Writings”, p.76, D & M Publishers

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