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Caricature is rough truth. -- George Meredith
Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius. -- Oscar Wilde
Computer enhancement has spread to still photography in advertisements, fashion pictorials, and magazine covers, where the human figure and face are subtly elongated or remodeled at will. Caricature is our ruling mode. -- Camille Paglia
The press creates a caricature. -- Marianne Williamson
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. -- Joseph Conrad
My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate. -- Alastair Campbell
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. -- Ernest Hemingway
If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity. -- Jackson Katz
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. -- George Santayana
I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction. -- Zadie Smith
Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines. -- Mark McKinnon
I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it. -- Lindsay Lohan
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals. -- Walt Disney
When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did. -- Lewis B. Smedes
For me, geopolitical issues are becoming more important, because how can you understand economy if you don't understand geopolitics? People think economists just deal with spreadsheets and charts. That's a narrow-minded caricature. -- Nouriel Roubini
The whole idea of rock and roll lifestyle is a cartoon. It's a caricature. And at times, it's made up of people emulating others; a few who actually live that lifestyle and many who claim to live that lifestyle. -- Paul Stanley
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
It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself. -- Lena Dunham
Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits. -- Paul Ryan
What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them. -- Rem Koolhaas
For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think one can create wonderful depth and meaning and communication without using words. I started out as an illustrator and a cartoonist and caricature artist, so for me the visual is primary. -- Bill Plympton
You are free to reject God. Make sure that you're really rejecting God, not some caricature of God that the church has shown you. But I, one, respect a God who not only allows us to reject Him but includes the arguments we can use against Him in the Bible. I respect that. -- Philip Yancey
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone. -- Caroline Knapp
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in reduction. It's like an Al Hirschfeld caricature, where he'll use, like, three lines, and he'll capture the likeness of someone so strongly that it looks more like them than a photograph. I think animation has that same power of reduction. -- Pete Docter
I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point. -- David Axelrod
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism. -- Leon Trotsky
Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom. -- John Sterling
Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The caricature of my own face always makes me laugh. -- Julia Gillard
I'm not like a persona. I'm not a caricature of myself. -- Lana Del Rey
I don't like caricature. I don't like extreme, I don't like that. -- Sebastien Foucan
When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile. -- Rolf Harris
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. -- Walt Disney
Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid. -- Alain LeRoy Locke
I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself. -- Miguel
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work. -- Martin Fleischmann
Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional. -- Danny Glover
For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up. -- Genndy Tartakovsky
You just have to get one misstep - that's an easy way to fall into caricature. Bad caricature. -- Brad Pitt
[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense. -- Ray Stevenson
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature. -- Bernard Berenson
I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself. -- Rory Bremner
TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star. -- Alain Ducasse
For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature. -- Jason Kenney
If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed. -- Mordecai Richler
I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively. -- Caroline Polachek
There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me. -- Jo Brand
I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
Everything that I've ever done is not really based on reality, it's the caricature of reality, which is what's really exciting. -- Genndy Tartakovsky
I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place. -- Charles Kennedy
I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature. -- Robert Pattinson
I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews. -- Mia Kirshner
No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature. -- Katie McGrath
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
The caricature of Islam as a violent and intolerant religion is horrendously incomplete. Remember that those standing up to Muslim fanatics are mostly Muslims. -- Nicholas Kristof
The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive. -- William Dobell
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
Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people. -- Questlove
[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits. -- Umberto Eco
But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather than a characterization. -- Joe Fafard
For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources. -- George Gilder
The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself. -- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator. -- Andree Putman
I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding. -- J. C. Chandor
If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man. -- Miguel de Unamuno
I think the trick to playing villains is that you can't play them as if they know that they're villains, otherwise it becomes some sort of mustache-twirling caricature! -- Mariana Klaveno
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
I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it. -- Carl Barks
Of Richard M. Nixon: A foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. -- Hunter S. Thompson
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system. -- Sigmund Freud
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I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you. -- Radha Mitchell
We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper it's often a caricature that has become canonical. -- Dale Jamieson
The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature. -- John Lasseter
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