Depict Quotes

73 Depict quotes by 65 unique authors

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it,… — Ernest Hemingway
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we… — William Makepeace Thackeray
I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear — Gore Verbinski
But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens. — David Brin
I don't know how to depict intelligence. — David Fincher
One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and… — Wendell Pierce
I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed. — Marlene Dumas
I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds. — Toby Jones
Depict a leader who seemed overwhelmed and rarely made key decisions. — Charlie Melancon
While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one… — Chris Hardwick
The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it… — H. L. Mencken
It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience. — Claude Monet
I believe that the problem of how you depict something is a formal problem. It's an interesting one and it's a permanent one; there's no… — David Hockney
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. Being explicit doesn't tap into… — David
We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a… — Vladimir Lenin
You cannot depict love inside a frame of fact. It needs a mist to dissolve in. — Stephen Leacock
The British are the last national group who can be insulted by Hollywood without any comeback. These days if you depict Italians as gangsters, Saudis… — Simon Hoggart
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if… — William Ralph Inge
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art. — Joyce Maynard
If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics… — Karl Rove
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world. — Jerry Saltz
If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is… — Italo Calvino
We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation. — Hayao Miyazaki
In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and… — David Foster Wallace
Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a… — Brigham Young

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