Depiction Quotes

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

I meet a lot of people when I do stand-up in the Middle East, and I don't know any terrorists, yet on TV and in the movies, 9 out of 10 are depicted as terrorists.

Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere.

Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it. I prefer to steer clear of anything aesthetic, so as not to set obstacles in my own way and not to have the problem of people saying: 'Ah, yes, that's how he sees the world, that's his interpretation.'

No one under international copyright law has the right to depict me or my husband without our consent. I have been surprised by the many people, particularly Americans, who are either writing books or going to produce films about the Mandela family without even bothering to consult us.

I'm not keen on films which depict a lot of violence.

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.

I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

If you want to depict something exactly the way it is, it takes a tremendous amount of time. If you don't get the details right, the inaccuracies will accumulate somewhere.

In 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' I wanted to take violence forward and play it up.

There is something sad about malevolence, to be wicked. I have always tried to make that come across in the villains I have played.

It's going to be very interesting to see somebody playing me.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

It's amazing how you get to recreate somebody else's life on-screen. It's wonderful when you get responses like, 'You actually look like him.'

Draw what you see.

Stained glass is unique from the outside, but as a painting insider, I know that oil painting's all about light. And it's about the depiction of light, the way that it bounces off different types of skin, different landscapes. The mastery of that light is the obsession of most of my painter friends.

I am at the same time thoroughly convinced that there is no great increase in the use of narcotics in America. Nothing can be gained by magnifying real conditions (neither would it be right to do so), nor by hiding real conditions. Conditions are bad enough as they are, but not as bad as some try to depict.

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.