Retouched Quotes

#1. I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.

Kate Winslet

#2. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten.

Milan Kundera

#3. Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no mere photographs, but the world of an artist.

Henry De Vere Stacpoole

#4. If I were ever to grace the pages of 'Vogue,' I would want my image retouched because the audience is so vast. There is great vulnerability in being exposed to that many judging eyes. I feel no small amount of guilt over this willingness to surrender my ideals.

Roxane Gay

#5. It could go on for years and years,
And has, for centuries,
For being human holds a special grief
Of privacy within the universe
That yearns and waits to be retouched
By someone who can take away
The memory of death.

Herbert Mason

#6. I think of scientific veracity as an idea from the past - the scientists say it is so, the photo is proof. Even the authoritative power of the word actual - an actual what? An actual retouched photo, an actual collaged photo?

Laurie Simmons

#7. I think we are living in a world that is too perfect and things are too retouched. I want to scream at the top of my lungs 'our imperfections are what make us special'

Erin Wasson

#8. A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren't willing to stay bored a little longer.

Paul Aurandt Jr.

#9. There is a correlation between the physical and spiritual worlds but only attachment to the physical world causes emotional suffering.

Daniel Marques

#10. I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst ... In other words, I had a life.

Richard Pryor

#11. The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.

Mason Cooley

#12. The lie described my life better than the truth,' I added. 'Until it became a kind of truth.

Ben Lerner

#13. Maybe we were together some other time.
I can't think when, I said.
You tried not to look at me. Maybe five million years ago.
People weren't even people back then.

Junot Diaz

#14. As long as you stay determined, you will stay focused and you will succeed

Carol Bell

#15. Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don't feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don't feel scared to have an idea and express it.

Michelle Williams