Quotes About Caricatures

These were strange caricatures of human beings, weirdly inflated, their breasts enormous spheres, held in place by string bikinis with cups the size of fourteen-meter yacht spinnakers. Their legs were elongated too, their toes pointed straight downward into high-heeled shoes steeper than double black-diamond ski runs.

We fight for and against not men and things as they are, but for and against the caricatures we make of them.

I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.

Comedy, surprisingly for a form that intends to bring joy and joviality, is always upsetting people. Jokes rely on broad strokes, stereotypes, caricatures, exaggerations and simplifications.

Actually I'd never planned a career in publishing, preferring the world of art.  There was always a sketch pad handy, though I soon learned that I was best with caricatures.  There was hardly a market for those unless one was a political cartoonist, an all-male world if there ever was one.  So it was publishing for me, at least for the time being.

Schoolchildren were asked to collect propaganda posters and caricatures 'for your race book and arrange them according to racial schemes'.

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

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.

When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

Caricatures, a coffee house on Macdougal with a batch of caricatures in the window, along with a signed note from Maxwell Bodenheim, the archetypical Village bohemian who'd been murdered a few years earlier.

In the Sitting Room, the walls were given over to framed Ape and Spy caricatures from the old Vanity Fair

The leaders who start out as jokes—people make fun of them, they're caricatures, cartoons in newspapers, and people decide they are harmless. Those men are the most dangerous. The day comes when they use their power against their own people." Alda

History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures.

A alma humana é um manicómio de caricaturas.

I did theatrical caricatures.

apart from the few who make a professional specialty of arguing about religion, secularist thinkers are generally unacquainted with anything but absurd caricatures of traditional religious ideas and arguments, are utterly unaware that anything other than these caricatures exist, and thus don't bother to look for anything but straw men to attack.

We have to ask ourselves why we are so focused on silent girly-girls in G-strings faking lust. This is not a sign of progress, it's a testament to what's still missing from our understanding of human sexuality with all its complexity and power. We are still so uneasy with the vicissitudes of sex we need to surround ourselves with caricatures of female hotness to safely conjure up the concept of 'sexy.' When you think about it, it's kind of pathetic.

They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them.

It seems that in order to inscribe themselves upon the heart of humanity with everlasting claims, all great things have first to wander about the earth as enormous and awe-inspiring caricatures:

'MAD Magazine' put out a book that was a collection of Trump cartoons, and they asked me to do the forward because they knew that I was a fan because I'd done stories and tweeted about 'MAD.' So I did the forward and asked them if I could do a cartoon. They let me, and I did caricatures of myself and Wolf Blitzer.

The worst of it was, he had come to like the Jacobeans, in all their sophipathic insanity. They might be grotesaries, caricatures, larger than life and full of violence-but they were also shockingly generous and, sometimes, shockingly funny.

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

You can't go around making caricatures of the neighbors.

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