Picture Tells Quotes

#1. Every picture tells a story. But sometimes it's hard to know what story is actually being told.

Anastasia Hollings

#2. Though a picture tells a story, it may not reveal the truth.

Kris Waldherr

#3. I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.

Douglas Coupland

#4. A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.

Paul Fleischman

#5. Every picture tells a story, don't it?

Rod Stewart

#6. For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the person you are at the time you see it.

Robert Keith Leavitt

#7. They say a picture tells a thousand words, but photographs reveal only a small part of the real story about a person.

Brownell Landrum

#8. A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.

Diane Arbus

#9. There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz.

Zooey Deschanel

#10. 'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.

Buzz Aldrin

#11. I suppose that by this time they had finished their dressing. Roger Scurvilegs tells us nothing on such important matters; no doubt from modesty. "Next morning they rose," he says, and disappoints us of a picture of Udo brushing his hair.

A.A. Milne

#12. Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful.

Robin Hobb

#13. There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#14. No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.

Vladimir Putin

#15. I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.

Paloma Faith

#16. Our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise

E. Lockhart

#17. I think my best teacher and my best study was theater in general. It taught me a lot of patience and a lot of hard work, and I think that theater teaches you that you've got to know your stuff because you only get one chance.

Chelsea Kane

#18. If a picture is good, it tells many different stories.

Josef Koudelka

#19. as women overcome one obstacle, another appears

Jean Sasson

#20. I feel that David took a risk with me. I have a sense that by starting off in the theatre and going off to do films you are seen to sell out in some way. I don't hold truck with that, but you can't stop people from feeling it.

Julia Ormond

#21. A shit show is chaos as religion, because "God is dead." A shit show all by itself is usually a crime. A shit show when put on paper or to music, is no longer whirling, twirling chaos. Then it's art. We can take it on the road, and we can travel with it. Have shit show, will travel.

Fiona Helmsley

#22. Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the world has ever seen, have been those who received and lived these precepts without once conceiving their beauty.

Horace Bushnell

#23. If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.

Norton Simon

#24. Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own conscience. Self-image is the picture of yourself carried in your own mind.

Israelmore Ayivor

#25. I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.

Deepika Padukone

#26. I have never seen a picture of my mother. My mother's family never owned a photograph of her, which tells you everything you need to know about where I'm from and what the world was like for the people who gave me life.

Marcus Samuelsson

#27. There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind the camera as about what is in front of it.

Robert Adams

#28. This is not real suffering, she tells herself. this is only a matter of reprogramming her picture of the future. Of understanding that the line of descendancy is not continuous but arbitrary.

Anthony Doerr

#29. You must make the main thing in your picture appear most important. If anyone tells me my hat is more important than my head - by God I'm taking off my hat.

Harvey Dunn

#30. Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story

Saul Bass

#31. If it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.

Charles Bukowski

#32. There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

Marlon Brando

#33. When All Else Fails, Just Write.

E.N. Hardy

#34. I was trained in seismic prospecting. We'd drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill.

George Saunders

#35. My larger point is that since each of us struggles daily with good and bad impulses, we might want to restructure our social institutions in order to make it a little easier to be good.

Richard D. Kahlenberg

#36. Hasn't anyone thought to look at outcomes as a logical way to figure out what really works? Not until recently. That tells you how far out of the picture the patient has been.

Marni Jackson

#37. The lye clinging in the exact shape of Tyler's kiss is a bonfire or a branding iron or an atomic pile meltdown on my hand at the end of a long, long road I picture miles away from me. Tyler tells me to come back and be with him. My hand is leaving, tiny and on the horizon at the end of the road.

Chuck Palahniuk