Caricatures Quotes

• The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Portraits, Mixtures, Painting

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• I've been thinking of trying to de-caricaturize Donald Trump. I thought it would be fun to try and, since he's already a caricature, to make him normal looking.

  Barry Blitt

  Fun, Thinking, Trying

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• 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

  World, Moments, Contradiction

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• The caricature of my own face always makes me laugh.

  Julia Gillard

  Laughing, Faces, Make Me Laugh

  "Julia Gillard: 20 people, 20 questions". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2013.

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• Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

  Aldous Huxley

  Criticism, Parody

  Point Counter Point (1928) ch. 28

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• All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Character, Exaggeration Is

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• Caricature is rough truth.

  George Meredith

  Art, Artist, Rough

  George Meredith (1995). “The Egoist”, p.309, Wordsworth Editions

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• The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner.

  Max Beerbohm

  Beautiful, Mean, Perfect

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.284, New York Review of Books

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• Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

  James Surowiecki

  Lying, Offering, Opponents

  "Stand Up For Your Budget, Paul Ryan". www.newyorker.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Opponents, Tendencies

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Design, Like You, Refrigerators

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• Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.

  David K. Shipler

  Office, Oval, Fit

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• My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

  Alastair Campbell

  Self, Males, Alpha Male

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• Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Family, Cousin, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.15, Vintage

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• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.

  Walt Disney

  Disney Animation, Different, Language

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• Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Learning, Literature, Educated And Uneducated

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Pennsylvania University Press, 1968.

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• I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews.

  Mia Kirshner

  Interviews, Feels, Persons

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• No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

  Franz Grillparzer

  People, Causes, Shortcomings

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• 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

  Law, Long, Opponents

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• You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

  Bernard Berenson

  Fun, Doe, Parody

  Bernard Berenson (1962). “The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958”

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• 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

  Writing, Years, Ducks

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• Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

  Michael J. Fox

  Zoos, Animal, Needs

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• 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

  Thinking, Becoming, Easy

  "Lena Dunham talks Girls with Most Powerful Women". Interview with Soledad O'Brien, fortune.com. October 03, 2012.

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• The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

  Simone Weil

  Running, Real, Teaching

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.34, Routledge

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• 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

  Age, Bigs, Grotesque

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