Definition of Caricature

Caricature

An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.

A picture or other figure or description in which the peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody.

To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque.

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Caricature Quotations

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
Walt Disney

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.
George Santayana

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

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

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

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

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The problem became this: We became a caricature of ourselves. We were after light, and it began to look as though we were after heat, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story.
Mike Wallace

I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point.
David Axelrod

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
Radha Mitchell

For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.
Jim Sensenbrenner

Caricature is rough truth.
George Meredith

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

I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
Carl Barks

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Caricature Translations

caricature in French is caricaturer
caricature in German is Karikatur
caricature in Swedish is karikera, karikatyr

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