Caricatures Quotes - Page 5

• I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself.

  Poppy Montgomery

  Long, Training, Trying

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• As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?

  Criss Jami

  Jesus, Teaching, Heart

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.43, Criss Jami

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• I think people have an idea of what Fox News is. If people don't watch Fox News, then it's just a caricature, it's not real, they have it in their heads that it's something very different than what it actually is.

  Megyn Kelly

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

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• Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life.

  Roger Kimball

  Beauty, Art, Idols

  Roger Kimball (2000). “Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age”, Ivan R Dee

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• Politicians are interesting people, most of them are smart and hard-working-I mean, they keep schedules no one else would think of keeping. Some of them live down to the caricature, but most of them are good people and they are charming.

  Tucker Carlson

  Smart, Hard Work, Mean

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• We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He freed us from all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality.

  Maurice Denis

  Art, Freedom, Ideas

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• We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Expression, Excess, Censure

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• Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished.

  Charles Bartlett Johnson

  Real, Black, Vision

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• I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel.

  Walt Disney

  Thinking, Knowing, Example

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• Villains are not fun for me to play, as such. But caricature-ish, intense behaviors that are based on real human traits are interesting. That makes an interesting story.

  Sharlto Copley

  Fun, Real, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

  Criss Jami

  Laughing, Comedian, Hardest

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.3, Criss Jami

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• Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism, Life After Faith is utterly devoid of cartoons and caricatures of religion. It is, instead, a sober and soulful book, an exemplary practice of philosophical reflection. Scrupulous in its argument, elegant in its style, humane in its spirit, it is animated by a stirring aspiration to wisdom. Even as I quarrel with it I admire it.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Book, Philosophical, Reflection

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• My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'

  Chris Hayes

  Dream, New York, Book

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• To think out a problem is not unlike drawing a caricature. You have to exaggerate the salient point and leave out that which is not typical. "To illustrate a principle ," says Bagehot , "you must exaggerate much and you must omit much." As to the quantity of absolute truth in a thought : it seems to me the more comprehensive and unobjectionable a thought becomes, the more clumsy and unexciting it gets. I like half-truths of a certain kind they are interesting and they stimulate.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, Drawing, Interesting

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love. I cannot live without it. I do not mean that I go into a decline, develop odd symptoms, became a caricature. I mean that I cannot live well without it. I cannot think or act or speak or write or even dream with any kind of energy in the absence of love. I feel excluded from the living world. I become cold, fish-like, immobile. I implode.

  Anita Brookner

  Love, Dream, Mean

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• When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.

  George Orwell

  Circles, Ideas, Forever

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• A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

  John Dryden

  Character, Farce, Action

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• What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint.

  Henry Fielding

  Writing, Sides, Ridiculous

  Henry Fielding (1902). “The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams”

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• The danger of course is always is caricature. The biggest challenge was to sound like Nelson Mandela. Everything else is easy to do, walk like him. He has a few ticks and things I noticed that I picked up. I didn't have any agenda, as it were, in playing the role other than to bring it as close to reality as I possibly could.

  Matt Damon

  Reality, Challenges, Sound

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• If she replaces her eyebrows with a Machiavellian triangle, paints her fingernails blue, and dyes her hair some color you'd see in a comic book it's not too attractive to me-because it's too familiar. Extremes aren't necessary. Even 'high fashion' frightens most men. When I have to wait in the dentist's office, I sometimes look at fashion magazines. To me, most of the models look like they have rickets or scoliosis of the spine. They look less like woman than caricatures.

  Robert Stack

  Fashion, Book, Men

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• Evangelization does not consist in proselytizing, for proselytizing is a caricature of evangelization, but rather evangelizing entails attracting by our witness those who are far off, it means humbly drawing near to those who feel distant from God in the Church, drawing near to those who feel judged and condemned outright by those who consider themselves to be perfect and pure.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Drawing, Perfect

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• For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference.

  Jared Diamond

  Differences, Environmental, Making A Difference

  Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.308, Penguin

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• I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.

  Charles Kennedy

  Thinking, House, Kind

  "Kennedy's bride-to-be dismisses drink claims", www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2002.

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• Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Attitude, Hate, Shadow

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

  Rolf Harris

  Self, Portraits, Draws

  "What I see in the mirror: Rolf Harris" by Rolf Harris, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.

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