World Representation Quotes

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed to govern it. They both fix the limits of what is considered as possible.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

I think there are two types of photographers, those who want to document the world and those who want to create their own world. I am more interested in documenting the world and presenting it to people with the question attached, 'Does this make any sense to you?'

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of the earth were contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the world.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

FIFA should show the world that it is truly a global organisation.

Speaking out and creating art that truly reflects the world we live in goes part of the way towards doing that. At least that's what I hope.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

A lot of the greatest artists, their work is always about life and the world. I think there needs to be that for video games.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.

Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects the world as it is.

To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.

I think, for Catalonia, FC Barcelona means a lot because it is one of the top clubs in the world, and that means that it's a way to show what Catalonia is in the world.

Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses - places where statements that seem to obey all the language's rules are nevertheless impossible to deal with.

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world

For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.

I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.