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  • Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a problem that did not exist before, and then try to solve that problem to the best of your ability. That i what caricature is all about
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Al Hirschfeld Quotes , Moving Quotes , Character Quotes
  • Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Mean Quotes
  • There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Character Quotes , Half Quotes
  • One thing about this face was very strange and startling. You could not look upon it in its most cheerful mood without feeling that it had some extraordinary capacity of expressing terror. It was not on the surface. It was in no one feature that it lingered. You could not take the eyes or mouth, or lines upon the cheek, and say, if this or that were otherwise, it would not be so. Yet there it always lurked-something for ever dimly seen, but ever there, and never absent for a moment.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Eye Quotes
  • I'm character-driven. If it's a great character and something different; because I find that a lot of the times you do get pigeon-holed, you do get the same characters over and over again because that's what producers are comfortable with. They've seen you do it, they know you can do it. I'm kind of getting a little stir crazy.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : A. J. Cook Quotes , Crazy Quotes , Character Quotes
  • Though not a participant in the Business of life; I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Life Quotes , Character Quotes
  • Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Ice Quotes