Reproductions Quotes

#1. For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form ... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And Id say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.

Ansel Adams

#2. As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits ... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them ... It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still.

David Cobley

#3. The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#4. The pictures are postcard reproductions of Old Masters. She has lots of metal animals about an inch long, little wooden shoes, painted boxes only big enough to hold stamps.

Dodie Smith

#5. If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.

Bill Gates

#6. Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.

Thomas P. Campbell

#7. Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

Shoshana Zuboff

#8. Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris.
"Yeah, here's a rare grocery list," Dan muttered. "Wow.

Rick Riordan

#9. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

Albert Einstein

#10. Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and encourage more people to get out to museums and galleries.

Bill Gates

#11. Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.

Neville Cardus

#12. Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

Bill Barich

#13. Growing up as a kid in Detroit, way back, there was a movie station that would show old kinescope reproductions of old movies, and I remember seeing Bela Lugosi for the first time and being duly frightened out of my wits.

Edward Herrmann

#14. Alex, drunk or sober, made no distinction between the hours of day and night, nor did the operations he knew so well, for there was no night and day where his work was concerned. There was only the flat light of fluorescent tubes in offices that never closed.

Robert Ludlum

#15. There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object ...

Wallis Simpson

#16. Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.

Steven Erikson

#17. At last." He breathed into her, finding her lips.
"You found me," she whispered.
"Always.

Lauren Kate

#18. Trust is the highest form of human motivation.

Stephen Covey

#19. Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions ...

David Hume

#20. Oh yeah, just push the knife in further and twist, why doncha?!

Aya Nakahara

#21. If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.

William J.H. Boetcker

#22. Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.

Helen Fisher

#23. Having oscillated all his life between the torments of a superficial loitering and the horrors of disinterested endeavour, he finds himself at last in a situation where to do nothing exclusively would be an act of the highest value, and significance.

Samuel Beckett

#24. All the theories mess you up inside.

Paul Cezanne