Representationalism Quotes

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.

I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, it's an evolved machine that we carry with us.

Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that.

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.