Quotes About Depiction

#1. Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.

Hedi Slimane

#2. Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.

Martin Scorsese

#3. Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.

Ridley Scott

#4. 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

#5. It is quite exciting, incidentally, to know that the Genesis account of the creation of mankind through its first parentage in Adam and Eve bears the marks of derivation from the primary Egyptian symbolic depiction.

Alvin Boyd Kuhn

#6. I don't really go into labels or an in-depth discussion of different value systems because for me, it's sort of the truth of the situation in D.C. Certainly, in my fictional depiction of it, there are decent, shameless people on both sides at every level.

Kristin Gore

#7. Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the Left's depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world.

Dennis Prager

#8. Your mind is your spirit; do not seek any other hidden soul inside you! All is in the brain! The depiction of a spirit rising to the sky is no more real than a medieval Scandinavian fairytales!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. As always, just the sight of him gave her a quick inner jolt. His face was like a painting, a depiction in perfect oils of some fallen angel. The sheer beauty of it, framed by all that rich black hair, was forever a surprise to her.

J.D. Robb

#10. 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

#11. When a script like 'Hardflip' comes along, with a real depiction of the rewards of a father-son relationship but also the difficulties of building one, you have my attention.

John Schneider

#12. There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.

Dean Koontz

#13. The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.

F. Sionil Jose

#14. I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.

Ellsworth Kelly

#15. I played a lot of the original 'Fight Night.' I think the depiction of Trinidad in the game was awesome.

Diego Corrales

#16. I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.

Roy Lichtenstein

#17. Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.

Reinhard Bendix

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

Laszlo Nemes

#19. 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.

Amy Harmon

#20. Borat shows American stereotypes of Eastern Europe but it's an accurate depiction of what a certain type of American is. They think they can buy and sell these girls and then they get bought and sold.

Eli Roth

#21. A lot of teenagers today are influenced by the media's depiction of perfection. I want readers to understand they don't have to follow the unofficial laws society creates, to be liked by others.

Erica Sehyun Song

#22. As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

David Hockney

#23. "Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.

Jane Fonda

#24. 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

#25. The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

Joni Mitchell

#26. The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'

Alain Juppe

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

Mason Cooley

#28. Perhaps the book's greatest weakness is its romantic depiction of President Kennedy as a kind of knight in shining armor.

Theodore H. White

#29. I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

Ray Bradbury

#30. But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

Lake Bell

#31. The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert Heinlein's 1942 tale 'Beyond This Horizon.'

Gregory Benford

#32. Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or incantation of a handful of metaphors whose spendour rests upon their intonation.

Michael Ayrton

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

Christopher Lasch

#34. The man was watching the nearby fish tank, which stood beneath a depiction of Tindwyl, Mother of Terris, perched on the walls during her last stand against the darkness. In the tank, tiny octopuses moved across the glass.

Brandon Sanderson

#35. The Notebook ... that's my favorite one. I've read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love.

Kevin Gates

#36. It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

Angela Davis

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

Bill Jay

#38. Depiction can override truth the same way that memory can override experience.

Cynthia Daignault

#39. My writing legacy would be my true depiction of life; exploring the entire colorful spectrum of people, both good and bad, capturing it in words and exposing it to all cultures in a respectful manner - In a way that would stand the test of time.

Diane Martin

#40. Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

David Hockney

#41. 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

#42. The point of the first one was that it was about guys being lured by sex and the stereotypes ... I always say it's like a horror version of Borat. Borat's not an accurate depiction of Khazakstan, it's an accurate depiction of America. That's what Hostel is.

Eli Roth

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

Lasse Hallstrom

#44. How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

Blaise Pascal

#45. Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV - he's the perfect depiction of aggrieved American manhood at the twilight of the empire.

Rob Sheffield

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

Marlon James

#47. We don't agree with the depiction of buildings in the '20s and 1930s. Things were seen either from above or below which tended to monumentalize the object. This was exploited in terms of a socialistic view - a fresh view of the world, a new man, a new beginning.

Bernd Becher

#48. 'Something Borrowed' is looking like a romantic comedy, but it's a comedy. It shines as a comedy; it's definitely not just about the romance. It's an honest depiction of the struggle between the characters. The comedy aspect will make it shine.

Ashley Williams

#49. I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'

Henry Rollins

#50. The value of a novel is not limited to its depiction of emotions and people akin to those in our own life; it stretches to an ability to describe these far better than we would have been able, to put a finger on perceptions that we recognize as our own, but could not have formulated on our own.

Alain De Botton

#51. Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking.

David Hockney

#52. 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

#53. Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane practices, no author could write about them, and no filmmaker could delve into the thorny subjects of our time.

Kathryn Bigelow

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

Richard Summerbell

#55. 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

#56. Having racially diverse casts on television is a more accurate depiction of the demographic of the world we live in.

Grace Gealey

#57. 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.

Nia Vardalos

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

Dan Simmons

#59. I can't measure up to Homer. His composition has survived for nearly three millennia and remains the world's most beautiful and mournful depiction of war. But the story of the Trojan War does not belong to Homer. The characters he employs were legendary long before he was born.

David Benioff

#60. America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay.

Winona LaDuke

#61. [In "The Night Gwen Stacy Died"], death took on an existential quality -- the beloved, innocent but weak Gwen is merely a victim, the casualty of a war between superpowered rivals -- and as such the episode proved a turning point int eh genre's depiction of mortality.

Jose Alaniz

#62. 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

#63. In this vivid depiction of the wiseguys and poor sods who drift through his flawed hero's bar, Con Lehane also shows us their modest hopes and dreams ... There are no easy solutions in McNulty's world.

Margaret Maron

#64. A strong wind sang sadly as it bent the trees in front of the Hall. A half moon shone through the dark, flying clouds on to the wild and empty moor.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#65. I'm not ashamed to admit that occasionally I've found myself aroused by my own depictions of sex.

Louis Begley