Quotes About Depiction

2.22 What a picture represents it represents independently of its truth or falsity, by means of its pictorial form.

I'm very worried about the depiction of women on the screen. It's gotten worse than ever and it's related to their being either high- or low-class concubines, and the only question is when or where they will go to bed, with whom, and how many. There's nothing to do with the dreams of women, or of woman as the dream, nothing to do with the quirky part of her, the wonder of her.

Our opinion on palaeoart is that subtle references and hints of anatomical features are more realistic, more in line with what we see in living animals. Portrayed with style and in an appropriate setting, they can leave a more distinct effect on the viewer.

Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story.

Justice, contrary to public belief, is not blind. Love is blind, but Justice? Look at any statue, at any depiction. She is blindfolded.

Every honest attempt to discover the truth and depict things faithfully is a struggle against one's own subjectivity and partiality, one's individual and class interests; one can seek to become aware of these as a source of error, while realizing that they can never be finally excluded.

You gotta know the details to paint a really good picture in the reader's mind on what's happening.

I hope wit comes through in all the characters I portray.

Anti-capitalism is nothing new in Hollywood. From 'Wall-E' to 'Avatar,' corporations are routinely depicted as evil. The contradiction of corporate-funded films denouncing corporations is an irony capitalism cannot just absorb, but thrive on. Yet this anti-capitalism is only allowed within limits.

I especially don't like the graphic violence against women and children often depicted in novels such as 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' and others. I'm not sure if it's being done just to entertain or whether it really is necessary for the characters involved.

If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That's what I'm exploring.

My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.

Pretty much all films I've seen that depict the life of Christ end with the Crucifixion, almost like the filmmakers don't know what to do after.

Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

If your depiction of loss doesn't make the reader feel loss, then you didn't depict it right.

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

Polygnotus depicted men as nobler than they are, Pauson as less noble, Dionysius drew them true to life.

The objects the imitator represents are actions.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting.

I think it's hilarious the way Obama is depicted post-presidency. He's always kayaking or playing jai alai like he's some retired athlete or something. Like he wasn't doing the exact same thing everybody else was doing.