Top 210 Caricature Quotes & Sayings

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Caricature is rough truth.

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

What's natural is beautiful, and when you're not you anymore, you become a 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.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.

A lot of queer characters get painted with either a caricature brush, or they're used to teach, in a way.

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

The press creates a caricature.

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

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

Before, gay portrayals in the media were so limiting, like a caricature of a homo. A parody almost.

I didn't want to make a caricature version of Elektra.

I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.

Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.

I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature.

I'm just a real person, not a caricature.

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

Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator.

If you're white working class, it's very easy to caricature the elites, and if you're elite, it's very easy to caricature the white working class.

The national media don't know me. They know the caricature that was created of me by journalists who were frankly jealous of my access. And it was a very negative caricature. There's this propensity for blaming a woman. It comes down to implicit bias. There are so many studies that show this.

In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in reduction. It's like an Al Hirschfeld caricature, where he'll use, like, three lines, and he'll capture the likeness of someone so strongly that it looks more like them than a photograph. I think animation has that same power of reduction.

You just have to get one misstep - that's an easy way to fall into caricature. Bad caricature.

I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

I think a caricature is different than a character.

Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

The caricature of me in 1986 was not correct. I do not harbor the kind of animosity and race-based discrimination ideas that I was accused of. I did not.

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Contrary to the popular caricature of him, the Duke of Edinburgh was neither judgmental nor unfeeling.

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.

No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'

TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star.

[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.

A simple caricature, a simple sketch - that's fine. There's nothing wrong with that. But if you draw up a caricature... if you associate that subject with the things you're not supposed to, then, of course, you can't expect that to be acceptable.

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

It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!

The caricature of my own face always makes me laugh.

You get to be a certain age - I am 58 - and it becomes tricky not to become a caricature of yourself.

I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews.

I'm not like a persona. I'm not a caricature of myself.

It turns out that the Republican Party is not a hero to anyone but the racist, xenophobic caricature of a candidate that is Donald Trump.

For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.

When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.

I keep trying to understand the phenomenon of why adults are so literal when children are so imaginative. Toys are a caricature of reality.

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.

I don't dress up as a woman: I dress up as a caricature of a caricature of a woman.

I was pretending to be a fake, a caricature, which is something I'm not, and I was doing it out of desperation and scarcity so I could provide for my family.

Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.

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