True Representation Quotes

I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get out of art and what the best art has. It has the ability to convince you that it's present - that it's there. You could say it's authentic... but real is actually a better word, broad as it may be.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

We have to have a school board that's actually gonna be able to function and that has true parent representatives on it.

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art form in itself, but... my portrait is a culmination of elements... a truer image of a person than just the 'click' of a snapshot.

I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.

Whatever you put in your listing, make sure that it's a true representation of the property and it's not dishonest.

In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind.

The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

With social media and advertising and filters and FaceTune-ing it's hard to even to know what's real and what's not. So to see an image of a woman where you can actually see her face and her skin texture and she's still polished and beautiful or even glamorous with a nighttime look, but it still feels like a real person. I feel like that's the kind of beauty I want to applaud and align myself with.

I want everyone to vote. I want everyone to be a part of electing officials. Because when we are not a part, when we don't have a very broad voter base, then we don't have true representation.

You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character.

I really just try to focus every day on delivering the most honest portrayal I can and let everything else take care of itself.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.

In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.

I feel that my fans deserve to get something that's authentic and real.

If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul.

Every revolutionary thinker in America, White, Black, Brown or Red, never got the true representation from the corporate-controlled media.

Authenticity resonates with people. The industry can be very misleading and is built to make people believe what they see. But people aren't dumb they can see through that and I think real music and real people resonate.