If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.
How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
Through the very culture of representation through form, we have come to see that the abstract - like the mathematical - is actually expressed in and through all things, although not determinately.
The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.
It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.
The more conservative the district, the more conservative the member should be.
If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.
Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.
But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.
I think of my visual work as an exploration of political epistemology: the politics of how we know what we think we know.
The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.
Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.
The application of group theory to physics became one of the main branches of physics that I specialized in.
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
