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 â€“ and this refers to women as well as men â€“ is that someone is elegant when he or she shows… — Stefano Pilati
Iâ€™m very worried about the depiction of women on the screen. Itâ€™s gotten worse than ever and itâ€™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: