Bertolt Brecht
Playwright, Poet
"Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change."
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Representation
30 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Agnes Martin
Artist
"Anything can be painted without representation."
Claude Simon
Novelist
"There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae."
Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"The world is my representation"
John Green
Author, YouTuber
"All representations of a thing are inherently abstract."
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