Depiction Quotes
40 quotes by 39 authors
-
We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.
— Bob Brown
-
My idea of elegance – and this refers to women as well as men – is that someone is elegant when he or she shows…
— Stefano Pilati
-
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…
— John Cassavetes
-
A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into English with rare…
— Fady Joudah
-
A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as…
— Stephen Greenblatt
-
As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction
— Dan Simmons
-
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
-
I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.
— Lasse Hallstrom
-
Erotica: the depiction of naked men. Depictions of naked women are far less innocent and are known as pornography.
— Richard Summerbell
-
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…
— Alvin Boyd Kuhn
-
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…
— Nia Vardalos
-
At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The…
— Timothy Keller
-
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…
— Margaret Maron
-
Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting…
— William Bernhardt
-
The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life…
— Peter Ho Davies
-
Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled there, including an…
— Andromeda Romano-Lax
-
But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue…
— Umberto Eco
-
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…
— Ralph Ellison
-
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals
— Angela Davis
-
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…
— Kathryn Bigelow
Who Wrote These Depiction Quotes
39 authors contributed a total of 40 Depiction Quotes, led by these top contributors: