#representation

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

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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation. ↗

— Fletcher Knebel

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I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive. ↗

— Chris Ware

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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

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The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language. ↗

— Robert Fripp

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And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old. ↗

— John Frusciante

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The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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