Representation Quotations

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

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.

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

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.

We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

I think every record, good or bad, is a representation of us.

The world is my representation