Representation Quotes

I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.

Jake Green isn’t just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film’s world of cons and games.

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.

To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.

It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.

Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.

I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy that he developed, of course, he was greatly influenced by Gandhi and Jesus Christ.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

It’s an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That’s what directing is.

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.