Picture Editor Quotes

#1. John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, If you want something to look interesting, don't light all of it.

Joe McNally

#2. Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

Dick Gregory

#3. That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

Haruki Murakami

#4. Death by starvation is slow.

Mary Hunter Austin

#5. I think it is one of the fundamentals, not only of the European Union but also of free trade, that competition is fair.

Margrethe Vestager

#6. I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine.

John James Audubon

#7. In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written everything from picture books to early chapter books to middle grade novels to YA to one adult novel - and having been editor and lead writer for a magazine for retired people!

Bruce Coville

#8. I don't care what right-wing white people are thinking.

Bill Cosby

#9. The memory of Cumshewa is of a great lonesomeness smothered in a blur of rain.

Emily Carr

#10. I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.

Hamish Bowles

#11. Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

Charles Spurgeon

#12. L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.

Jamie Bamber

#13. [My mom] is quite the strict editor. I feel like maybe she has more of the old-school editing style, which really works in picture books, because you don't want to articulate anything in words that is already shown through the pictures.

Jenna Bush

#14. What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.

Paulo Coelho

#15. The order you seek is the chaos you feel.

Marty Rubin

#16. An eye for an eye til everyone is blind.

Kathy Mattea

#17. Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

Ken Auletta