#representation

I liked the fact that there were so many different representations of black women and black men in the movie. It wasn't like we all had the same agenda. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

#black #different #fact #had #i

I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that. ↗

— Mike Lee

#again #against #ceiling #debt #debt ceiling

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. ↗

— Agnes Martin

#concrete #feelings #most #our #representation

Taxation without representation is tyranny. ↗

— James Otis

#taxation #tyranny #without

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls. ↗

— Rudolf Otto

#bear #become #carved #dim #eyes

Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#eye #i #interested #only #representation

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#far #invisible #musician #painter #poet

It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#clear #drawing #had #i #me

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment. ↗

— George Saunders

#actually #consciousness #course #create #day

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off? ↗

— George Saunders

#days #doing #each #evil #find