Quotes About Depiction

The president, while often a fabulist in his depiction of the world, was quite a literalist when it came to how he saw himself.

Suuri kirjailija on ennen kaikkea kertoja ja kuvaaja. Muista nämä. Suuri kirjailija ei ole koskaan saarnaaja, hosuja tai maailmanparantaja.

Historija radi Å¡irokim potezima, a fresco. Historija slika dekorativno!

described as indexical. What he meant was an image made by the physical being of the object, not a line drawing.

To make a faithful picture, come as close as possible to copying the object as it is.' This simple-minded injunction baffles me; for the object before me is a man, a swarm of atoms, a complex of cells, a fiddler, a friend, a fool and much more. If none of these constitute the object as it is, what else might? If all are ways the object is, then none is way the object is. I cannot copy all these at once; and the more nearly I succeeded, the less would the result be a realistic picture.

On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding ' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.

What superficiality—and what stupidity—there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty. The masters through their subjective perceptions created beauty out of trivialities. They did not hide their interest even in things which were nauseatingly ugly, but soaked themselves in the pleasure of depicting them.

What superficiality—and what stupidity—there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty. The masters through their subjective perceptions created beauty out of trivialities. They did not hide their interest even in things which were nauseatingly ugly, but soaked themselves in the pleasure of depicting them. In other words, they seemed not to rely in the least on the misconceptions of others.