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Quotes About Caricature

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
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
~ Bernard Berenson
Before, gay portrayals in the media were so limiting, like a caricature of a homo. A parody almost.
~ Manila Luzon
The man uttering these words had a face like the Golem of Prague and a barrel-shaped body that belonged on a beer cart. He wore a short leather coat and a cap with a peak that grew straight out of his forehead. He had ears like an Indian elephant, a mustache like a toilet brush, and more chins than the Shanghai telephone directory
~ Philip Kerr
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
Trump brings rhetoric and reality together in a cartoon caricature of a Republican politician that anyone can understand. That gives him a vital role in history. He is the perfect exorcist to drive a stake through the heart of the modern Republican Party.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
When I made 'Polly Maggoo,' it was more or less the end of this collaboration with 'Vogue' because I made a caricature of the editor-in-chief and the fashion people, so they didn't really adore me.
~ William Klein
He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.
~ Simon Callow
Yo diría que barroco es aquel estilo que deliberadamente agota (o quiere agotar) sus posibilidades y que linda con su propia caricatura.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Nixon's shifty eyes and perpetual 5 o'clock shadow made him a natural fit for caricatured villainy.
~ Richard Corliss
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
~ Walt Disney
I played up to a caricature when I was in the band, always pouting in photos and being the entertainer. But I'm also emotional and sensitive, not as thick-skinned as people think.
~ Sarah Harding
The Shaun Ryder in the Happy Mondays isn't the real Shaun Ryder. It's a caricature. Always has been.
~ Shaun Ryder
It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.
~ Ted Cruz
If you're white working class, it's very easy to caricature the elites, and if you're elite, it's very easy to caricature the white working class.
~ J. D. Vance
Yes, I am aware that I have become a caricature. I've thought about this. Conceptually, what I'd like to do is the equivalent of writing myself out of the script.
~ Phil Collins
I'm good at caricature.
~ Harry Enfield
As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.
~ Frank Miller
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
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
[Richard M. Nixon was] 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
Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.
~ John Sterling
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
For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.
~ Jason Kenney