Representation and difference

Representation fails to capture the affirmed world of difference. Representation has only a single centre, a unique and receding perspective, and in consequence a false depth. It mediates everything, but mobilises and moves nothing. Movement, for its part, implies a plurality of centres, a superposition of perspectives, a tangle of points of view, a coexistence of moments which essentially distort representation: paintings or sculptures are already such "distorters", forcing us to create movement – that is, to combine a superficial and a penetrating view, or to ascend and descend within the space as we move through it.

Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition (Continuum, 2004) p. 67