Michael Wolff

I am in the representational business, a portraitist. I have tried to walk an amused line amid hyperbole, documentary detail, cruel characterisation, occasional affection, some good punchlines and anthropological social insight. It's been a good living.

American Author

Adam Mansbach

Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

Jon Favreau

I think what's fun about the Western genre is the character arcs are very strong and, arguably, more interesting and exciting than the action that is metaphorically representational of those arcs.

American Actor

Charlotte Casiraghi

I'm not a princess. My mother is, not I. I am the niece of a head of state. And with this status, I have some representational duties - nothing very constraining or very exceptional.

Royalty

Anna Quindlen

Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.

American Journalist

Terry Teachout

What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I see is a flat piece of canvas covered with colored patterns.

American Critic

Jackson Pollock

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

American Artist

Robert Smithson

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.

Austrian Philosopher

Joe Sacco

It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.

Journalist

When used in art, 'representational' implies the artwork looks like the subjects it portrays.

Art Interpretation

'Representational' can also refer to descriptions in literature that paint a clear picture in the reader's mind.

Literary Descriptions

Understand the context to distinguish representational art from abstract art, which does not mimic reality.

Context Awareness

'Representational' indicates that something, like a word or symbol, stands for an idea or concept.

Abstract Concepts

Remember that representational language lets us discuss things that aren't directly in front of us.

Language Function

In science and mathematics, 'representational' models are simplified versions of complex realities.

Scientific Models

In politics, 'representational' means individuals are chosen to act on behalf of others.

Government Context

Understanding 'representational' in the political sense highlights the importance of voting in democracy.

Voting Importance

Different countries use the concept of 'representational' in varying degrees in their political systems.

Political Systems

 There's a cave where all these animal-headed creatures travel between two worlds. They go from the representational world, to this analog-mesh underworld, where they're hiding. This is where the animal-headed creatures are by the lighthouse, and they're all about to commit mass suicide into the ocean. The ocean is made up of thousands of elements.

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 Because there's some major omissions there. Where's the landscape features? Where's the weaponry? Where's the daily life? Did nobody look up at the sky? You know? And so I think that, personally, and this is what we're starting to dig into now, I think a lot of these geometric signs might actually be representational, as well.