Caricature Quotes

• Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Mediocrity
  • Tribute

• You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Universe
  • Caricature
  • Parody

• I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Careful
  • Grotesque
  • Knockers

• I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

  

  Caroline Polachek Chairlift
  • Inspired
  • Mania
  • Negatively

• The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Magic
  • I Believe
  • Authority

• We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Creation
  • Artistic
  • Hysteria

• Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Fascism
  • Caricature
  • Jacobinism

• He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Fashion
  • Educated
  • Legion

• Everything that I've ever done is not really based on reality, it's the caricature of reality, which is what's really exciting.

  

  Genndy Tartakovsky
  • Everything
  • Exciting
  • Based

• The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

  

  Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
  • Fashioned
  • Caricature
  • Human Society

• Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Humility
  • Caricature

• The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would seem to be a pursuit of the physician as harmless as it is indispensable. But it seemed irresistibly rational to certain minds that diseases should be as fully classifiable as are beetles and butterflies. This doctrine ... bore perhaps its richest fruit in the hands of Boissier de Sauvauges. In his Nosologia Methodica published in 1768 ... this Linnaeus of the bedside grouped diseases into ten classes, 295 genera, and 2400 species.

  

  Wilfred Trotter
  • Doctrine
  • Diseases
  • Physician

• The librarian is a caricature of librarian - short white hair, horn-rimmed glasses, a bosom you could hide Christmas presents under and a New England-tight-ass face that looks like she hasn's taken a shit since her family came over on the Mayflower.

  

  Bart Yates
  • Family
  • Christmas
  • Librarian

• When I'm online and I see a picture I want to draw of anybody or anything, a unique angle of them or just something that looks very drawable, I slide it to my desktop and put it in a folder. It just seems like every picture of Trump is a revelation. Any angle. I didn't know a person could look like that. His facial expressions - he really is a cartoon. He's like an instruction manual of how to caricature someone.

  

  Barry Blitt
  • Picture
  • Revelation
  • Instruction

• For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

  

  Genndy Tartakovsky
  • Something
  • Ground
  • Animation

• I've been thinking of trying to de-caricaturize Donald Trump. I thought it would be fun to try and, since he's already a caricature, to make him normal looking.

  

  Barry Blitt
  • Donald Trump
  • Caricature

• I don't have a philosophy of caricature. I'm not even sure I am a caricaturist, in the strictest sense of the word - I don't really exaggerate much. For a while, recently, I was thinking of attempting a reverse-caricature of Donald Trump; he certainly already appears to be a caricature of himself. I wondered about de-caricaturizing him, scaling back his whole face and hair and visual excess, and attempting to shed light on him that way.

  

  Barry Blitt
  • Philosophy
  • Face
  • Donald Trump

• Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • History
  • Fiction
  • Caricature

• Women are more difficult to caricature than men - partly because beauty is more difficult to caricature.

  

  Steve Breen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Caricature

• What is now called "green architecture" is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.

  

  Rem Koolhaas
  • Architecture
  • Intellectual
  • Concerned

• My favorite caricaturist is Al Hirschfeld. I'm always trying to give my caricatures that streamlined quality - and I often fall short.

  

  Steve Breen
  • Fall
  • Quality
  • Caricature