Top 100 Quotes About A Picture
#1. I'm never wearing them," Ron was saying stubbornly. "Never."
"Fine," snapped Mrs. Weasley. "Go naked. And, Harry, make sure you get a picture of him. Goodness knows I could do with a laugh.
J.K. Rowling
#2. Life is like a picture, you know. It's all in the way you frame it.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#3. I never thought of myself as any kind of a film star, as many films as I've made - and I've made some really fun movies with good people. I've always been paired with someone because I'm not really box office, in that carrying-a-picture sense. I've always been busy, but not in the spotlight.
Lily Tomlin
#4. The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.
C.S. Lewis
#5. (You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.
Andy Warhol
#6. I go eat a sandwich for lunch and have a milk shake and miss going to the gym for 10 days, and somebody snaps a picture of me on the beach, and all of a sudden, I've lost it. Why do I need to be perfect all the time?
Eric Dane
#7. Social media has a way of changing your mood. I can see a picture of my ex, and it ruins my day.
Kim Stolz
#8. The look on Tanner's face is priceless. I want to take a picture of it, frame it, and hang it over my mantel so I can give it the finger every day.
Eve Jagger
#9. Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.
Alessandra Ambrosio
#10. Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card
Max Euwe
#11. I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
Howard Hodgkin
#12. I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen ... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.
Lucian Freud
#13. A picture-perfect moment, except for the fact that we were about to die and the world was going to end.
Rick Riordan
#14. In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.
Ben Shahn
#15. There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
William H. Hunt
#16. [On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.
Peggy Guggenheim
#17. Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
William Stafford
#18. When we take a picture, we have a negative. We put the right solution on it and, suddenly, the picture comes to life. So what do we do? We take the negative and turn it into a positive.
Madonna Ciccone
#19. Rodney King is a progenitor of all these cell phone videos that we have. It was unusual that a person had a video camera to take a picture of the Rodney King beating. Now, of course, everybody has a phone, and that has been one of the key factors in all the new attention to the issue.
Jeffrey Toobin
#20. You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.
Eve Bunting
#21. I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
Brian Eno
#22. I'm a picture without a frame. A poem without a rhyme. A car with three wheels. A sun without fire. I am a gun without bullets. I am the truth without someone to hear it. I am a feeling without someone to feel it. This is who I am. A mess without you. Something beautiful with you.
Pleasefindthis
#23. It's very difficult to know when you're crossing the boundary. I hate the word boundary because I never think about it when taking a picture. Very often it doesn't mean anything because it depends on who's looking at the picture more than the content of the picture itself.
Carine Roitfeld
#24. I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point.
Chris Van Allsburg
#25. The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances ... a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.
Ernst Haas
#26. I think my interest gets sparked when I recognize a memory. That is when I take a picture.
Alex Majoli
#27. For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.
Kate DiCamillo
#28. Shooting on the street in Brazil - compared to people trying to sneak a picture of something, if you're shooting in the States or Canada - people would literally just try to grab you.
Robert Pattinson
#29. When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.
Pauline Kael
#30. When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.
Vivienne Westwood
#31. Balance of light is the problem, not the amount. Balance between shadows and highlights determines where the emphasis goes in the picture ... make sure the major light in a picture falls at right angles to the camera.
Elliott Erwitt
#32. That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
Edmond De Goncourt
#33. [The Bible] warns us about "the little foxes, that spoil the vines" [Song of Solomon 2:15 KJV]. This is a picture of the way "little" sins
can destroy our fruitfulness for the Lord.
Billy Graham
#34. Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.
Georges Braque
#35. The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.
Eugene Delacroix
#36. If a picture is good, it tells many different stories.
Josef Koudelka
#37. With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.
F. Murray Abraham
#38. I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.
Herb Ritts
#39. I always have a picture in my head of what I want. I will literally do anything to make it happen. I will kill myself; I will run myself into the ground to make it happen how I want it to happen.
Vic Fuentes
#40. I guess my work is described a lot of the time as very sensual and sexy. When I take a picture, I'm very focused on trying to discover something about a person. Or about an idea. I try to be quite successful at it.
Mario Sorrenti
#41. A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#42. New Rule: You can't put a windmill in your campaign ad if you voted against every single bill that might lead to someone building one. As long as you're sending a camera crew to a farm, why not just take a picture of actual bullshit?
Bill Maher
#43. I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire
Edward Burne-Jones
#44. One time, I put up 40, 50 points dunking on Shawn Bradley. After the game, he brought his family over. He was like, 'This is my wife. She wants to take a picture.' I'm like, 'Nice to meet you.' I smile into the camera, take the picture, and then feel guilty about dunking on him so many times.
Shaquille O'Neal
#45. It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.
William Morris Hunt
#46. If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
Vijay Kumar
#47. A picture is worth a thousand words, but conversations with them generally end in dissapointment.
Dov Davidoff
#48. Taking a picture is like giving a piece of your soul away. You allow other people to see the world through your eyes.
Katja Michael
#49. They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.
Luke Taylor
#50. I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea, encouraging, say, activation, tranquilization, concentration, or harmony ...
Max Bill
#51. Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake.
Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.
Max Jacob
#52. If this is about sleeping on the floor, I'll do it," I said. "Because I don't mind."
"No, but do you want to take a picture of my nest? It's very romantical.
Catherine Clark
#53. I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels.
Marlon James
#54. The sex symbol thing's a little bit different for me. Usually, like whenever there's a picture of me, there's always this set of things that comes out like, 'Oh my god, she's so ugly.'
Mitchell Baker
#55. I sometimes close my eyes during a show because I have drawn a picture of an audience enjoying the show more on the back of my eyelids.
Mitch Hedberg
#56. I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.
Martin Scorsese
#57. When we fall in love with someone there's a moment when we take a picture of that person, an emotional snapshot, that we carry with us forever. If we're lucky, if we're very, very lucky, the person we fall in love with will always resemble that snapshot.
Jim Geoghan
#58. A wedding is a ceremony where two people promise to love each other forever, no matter what. This was something the Designer intended from the beginning of time. Marriage is a picture of his love for the people he created.
Krista McGee
#59. Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. The doctor can X-Ray you and say, 'You got cancer.' And then you go home and God let me see, does Christ have cancer? If Christ don't, I don't have cancer. All I need to do is get a picture of what he looks like. Because, if I can see Him I become like Him.
Eddie Long
#61. These days, young people watch TV on smartphones and computers. Young people with an actual TV set are harder to find than a picture of Anthony Weiner with his clothes on.
Craig Ferguson
#62. When I'm taking a picture of Aya Sofia, what counts is the person passing by who stands for life
Ara Guler
#63. A fashion photographer is nothing without clothes and hair and makeup. And when I speak to other photographers, a lot of them can't reference a picture by the designer. Me, I say, 'The Balenciaga.' And I go to the shows. I feel like it's my business.
Mario Testino
#64. I've learned some quick tricks about how to fix my hair so I can dash somewhere unexpected and still be O.K. when someone stops me to take a picture.
Mikaela Shiffrin
#65. I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.
Maddie Ziegler
#66. My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the world's constant upsetting of man's equilibrium, and his eternal battle to reestablish it.
Alfred Stieglitz
#67. There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you." This could be a drawing, in words, even a song. Just remember that the chances are good it will be full of paradox and contradictions.
Brennan Manning
#68. To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn't think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
Aaron Siskind
#69. The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.
Thomas Browne
#70. She posted a picture of herself in a T-shirt which said "FLAWLESS.
Nancy Jo Sales
#71. A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
#72. My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
John Henrik Clarke
#73. What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.
Mary Ellen Mark
#74. Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
Robert Heinecken
#75. In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.
Clint Eastwood
#77. She moaned in playful disappointment. "You shouldn't have canceled. It would be fund to take a picture. You'll be laughing at this years from now.
Stacey O'Neale
#78. A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can't answer your question try to question your question ... There can be questions without answers but no answers without questions.
Ernst Haas
#79. If a picture paints a thousand words, then a naked picture paints a thousand words without any vowels ...
Josh Stern
#80. I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
Vincent Van Gogh
#81. I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.
Gillian Flynn
#82. It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand ...
Elsie De Wolfe
#83. I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.
James Joyce
#84. There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.
Bono
#85. A picture is poem without words.
Confucius
#86. Some time ago, I investigated the possibility that a computer might be able to reconstruct a picture from sets of very accurate X-ray measurements taken through the body at a multitude of different angles.
Godfrey Hounsfield
#87. My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost yearly. I loved everything by Roald Dahl, but my favourite was probably 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' A librarian gave me a first edition of that book, which I treasure.
Rick Yancey
#88. I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
Gayle Forman
#89. A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.
- Must I Paint You a Picture
Billy Bragg
#90. Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind
Gautama Buddha
#91. My waist used to be tiny. I just saw a picture of Miley Cyrus with a little crop top and low pants, and I'm like, 'That was me growing up in Brazil!' I had the typical model body, but after babies, it changed. I look more like a woman.
Camila Alves
#92. I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.
Milton Avery
#93. My grandma has a picture of Louis Farrakhan playing violin in her house.
Shamir
#94. Only the painter who knows his business can create the impression that a picture was done in one stroke.
Auguste Renoir
#95. A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks.
Richard Avedon
#96. I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am like," and the person seeing the picture says in return, 'You know a lot but you don't know half of what I know.'
Emmet Gowin
#97. A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows
Mati Klarwein
#98. He bought her a pretty music box with a picture of the castle in winter painted on the lid, and she slept on his shoulder on the train ride home.
Michael Schmicker
#99. When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.
Frank Stella
#100. Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.
Harry Callahan
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