Depiction Quotes

• It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

  Christopher Lasch

  Reality, Media, Logic

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.519, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Erotica: the depiction of naked men. Depictions of naked women are far less innocent and are known as "pornography."

  Richard Summerbell

  Men, Naked, Innocent

  "Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary". Book by Richard Summerbell, 1985.

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• I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Character, Performances

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• As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

  Dan Simmons

  Catholic, Church, Predictions

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• The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke.

  Hilma af Klint

  Change, Art, Work

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• Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without denying 'repression,' is a testimony to unspoken female power and the continuing protest in Islamic culture.

  Shirin Neshat

  Art, Women, Islamic

  Interview with Dorna Khazeni, www.believermag.com. August 2003.

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• In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Art, Men, Order

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• All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.

  Ralph Ellison

  Men, Minorities, Individual

  Ralph Ellison, Maryemma Graham, Amritjit Singh (1995). “Conversations with Ralph Ellison”, p.9, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It's a movie depiction you don't want to screw up.

  Laszlo Nemes

  Screw Ups, Want, Screws

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.

  Amanda Schull

  Stage Performance, Cameras, Lenses

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

  Bill Jay

  Photography, True Or False, Hard

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• Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call "history" by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World historyonly comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.

  Stefan Zweig

  Mean, History, Done

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• If people start pulling away the stereotypes of what angels are instead of these fluffy, teddy-bear kinds of angels, then they'll see, historically, that they were terrifying in some depictions. In the Bible, from what I remember, often the reaction to angels is one of terror.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Angel, People, Pulling Away

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think it's sinful to give the audience material it knows already, whether the material is about race relations or the car culture or the depiction and placement of a candy bar.

  Manny Farber

  Thinking, Race, Giving

  Interview with Richard Thompson, www.screeningthepast.com. 1977.

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• I think "honest" sometimes gets used to describe a real depiction of real life. I don't think that's necessarily what we're doing. We created these fake characters and we're just trying to figure out what they would do in situations they enter into.

  Paul Rust

  Real, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I had no clue what anyone was talking about like, you know I don't think I, I don't think any of the depictions of sex were more to me than just like an image of two people's arms rubbing together [when I was eight], I just had no clue.

  Lena Dunham

  Sex, Thinking, Eight

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• They say that 'history is an argument without end.' In Thompson's skillful hands, this momentous argument between two old friends on the most critical issue of the last century is thus history at its best. Thompson's judicious and delicious depiction of Nitze and Kennan will fascinate anyone who cares about the Cold War or the ways that human beings shape the future.

  Jonathan Alter

  War, Hands, Two

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• I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media, I think, is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Responsibility, Thinking

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• A historic, in-depth study of what it means to risk one's life to be an artist. It is also a depiction of sexual confusions, ironic outrage and rage, and the shedding of society's armor to create a female knight in pursuit of a vision. Georgia O'Keeffe is the one woman who was there first in the world of art.

  Sandra Hochman

  Art, Mean, Knights

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• I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness was home. It was not an unsafe place. I had that advantage. But there are so many representations of the wilderness being dangerous. You know, depictions of wild animals attacking people. It's like, "No, we kill those animals in far greater numbers than they kill us."

  Cheryl Strayed

  Home, Animal, Land

  "'Wild’s' Cheryl Strayed Becomes One With Reese Witherspoon". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 2014.

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• I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.

  Mackenzie Phillips

  Wise, Years, Evil

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• I think one of the most important American films is "Jackie Brown", which is such a humble depiction of humble characters but so powerful. The film was pure depiction of the American poverty of the 90s.

  Arnaud Desplechin

  Powerful, Humble, Character

  "INTERVIEW: Soul Searching, or Searching for a Soul; Enigmatic Desplechin Returns with 'Esther Kahn'" by Andrea Meyer, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2002.

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• Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

  Mason Cooley

  Modern, Paint, Interfere

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• There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone. There's a Russell Crowe... well, you know, there's a black Russell Crowe.

  Michael Jai White

  Men, Black, Kind

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• The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and new economy is making lots more poor or recognize their fellowship with the insecurity of the poor, the portion of the population for whom the system does not work.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Believe, Insecurity, Leeches

  Source: therumpus.net

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