Representation Quotes - Page 20

• Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.

  Emile Durkheim

  Religious, Two, Fundamentals

  W. S. F. Pickering, Emile Durkheim (2011). “Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks”, p.113, Casemate Publishers

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• Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.

  Emile Durkheim

  Religious, Reality, Collectives

  Emile Durkheim (2000). “The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life”, p.12, Library of Alexandria

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• My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present

  Charles Baudelaire

  Artist, Past, Historical Value

  Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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• I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture. It really moved the dial politically. That's what is needed in the women's movement - a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.

  Ai-jen Poo

  Thinking, Issues, Media

  "An incredible container for transformation". Interview with Sheila Bapat, logger.believermag.com. May 9, 2014.

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• You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. That's kind of unthinkable.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Thinking, Kind, Think Of You

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• [Do you know] how it feels to be a clownish character? It's always complicated to imagine conveying yourself outside of your body. Inside myself I feel like this rich, complicated thing, and then I see representations of myself, especially in the media - and I think this is why it's troubling for me, because I feel so caricatured and flattened.

  Kalan Sherrard

  Character, Thinking, Media

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• All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

  Mike Svob

  Reality, Ideas, Painting

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• The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms a leitmotif in the history of art. Confounding subject and object, it undermines the speaking position of the individual woman artist by generalizing her. Denied her individuality, she is displaced from being a producer and becomes instead a sign for male creativity.

  Whitney Chadwick

  Art, Creativity, Individuality

  Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”

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• Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.

  Mary Butts

  Nature, Men, Perception

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• A people who still remembered that their ancestors had been the masters of the world would have applauded, with conscious pride, the representation of ancient freedom, if they had not long since been accustomed to prefer the solid assurance of bread to the unsubstantial visions of liberty and greatness.

  Edward Gibbon

  Pride, Greatness, Long

  Edward Gibbon (1820). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.165

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• I myself share with the Conservative Party a profound dislike for such fandangles as proportional representation.

  Hugh Dalton

  Party, Profound, Conservative

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• It is a privilege to be recognized by FDLA.  I am a staunch believer that as a member of the Bar, we have the great privilege to represent clients in all facets of our practice, and that includes making the commitment to represent clients for whom access to representation and ultimately justice is limited by economics.  As all of the “20 for 20 honorees have done, stepping up to meet that commitment is at the heart of what it means to be a lawyer.  I hope the inspiring stories and contributions of my fellow honorees will shine a bright light on FDLA and this most important mission.

  Terrence J

  Commitment, Heart, Mean

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• If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart; they have all the fire of our passions, they can raise them as much as if the persons themselves were present; they have all the tenderness and the delicacy of speech, and sometimes a boldness of expression even beyond it.

  Heloise

  Passion, Heart, Fire

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• Many there are who, not comprehending, not being affected with, that divine, spiritual description of the person of Christ which is given us by the Holy Ghost in the Scripture, do feign unto themselves false representations of him by images and pictures, so as to excite carnal and corrupt affections in their minds. By the help of their outward senses, they reflect on their imaginations the shape of a human body, cast into postures and circumstances dolorous or triumphant; and so, by the working of their fancy, raise a commotion of mind in themselves, which they suppose to be love unto Christ.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Imagination, Mind

  John Owen (2001). “The Person of Christ”, p.159, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing. A forfeited bond twinkles in the hard smile. But follow him to an altar-piece. His Apostle has caught a stray tint from his usurer. Features of exquisite beauty are seen and loved; but the old nature of avarice frets under the glow of devotion. Pathos staggers on the edge of farce.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Art, Children, Eye

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.46

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• In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Practice, England, Interest

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.167, Harvard University Press

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• In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Photography, Reality, Objectivity

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• My feeling about fiction, regardless of the genre, is that it is meant to be a representation of life. I want my books to give a whole spectrum of experiences to my readers. Not just fear or terror or revulsion, but excitement, laughter, pain, sorrow, desire, etc.

  Richard Laymon

  Laughter, Pain, Book

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• We're highly adaptable and have developed some powerful systems of representation.

  Dale Jamieson

  Powerful, Adaptable

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• ... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)

  John Ruskin

  Men, Hands, Tangible

  John Ruskin “The stones of Venice (cont'd) Seven lamps of architecture. Lectures on architecture and painting, delivered at Edinburgh in Nov. 1853. An inquiry into some of the conditions at present affecting the study of architecture in our schools”

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• Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him.

  James Jackson Jarves

  Art, Nature, Men

  James Jackson Jarves (1960). “The art-idea”

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• If you think about for example, proportionality and beauty, things like that, these seem to be some kind of representations of a kind of unity.

  Peter Adamson

  Thinking, Unity, Example

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Basically the problem is that if the intellect is looking at or beholding the forms, what it will get is some kind of representation or image of the forms, but it won't actually have the forms, it won't touch them as it were, or it won't incorporate them.

  Peter Adamson

  Kind, Problem, Form

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was, yet these 13 little scrawny states, tired of taxation without representation, tired of being exploited and oppressed and degraded, told that big British Empire, liberty or death.

  Malcolm X

  Powerful, Tired, Liberty

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• People probably long for something genuinely personal in a society where the personal is often indistinguishable from the "personalized." Maybe the poetry audience member is searching for his or her own "personal space" and they expect the poet to be a sort of avatar of the private life. But that sort of representation is distasteful to me. Asking a poet to represent the personal life is, paradoxically, to turn the poet into something other than a person.

  Rae Armantrout

  Long, People, Poet

  Source: therumpus.net

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