Top 100 The Picture Quotes
#2. Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.
Guy Finley
#3. I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils sporting horns and carrying pitchforks. To me, angel wings are merely symbolic of their role as divine messengers.
Richard Paul Evans
#5. There were times when I got frightened. Things weren't going right, so I just went out and got smashed. That's me. Something goes wrong, I find a bottle. I don't like it about myself but I've done it before and I'll do it again. But I never vanished for days or held up shooting or quit the picture.
George C. Scott
#6. The problem is, not to find whether the picture is mournful, but whether it is true. And for that we have the testimony of history.
Frederic Bastiat
#7. The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book.
Margaret Mahy
#8. And that's what love does, it wipes out all the messy parts so you can see the picture clear.
Zetta Elliott
#9. There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
Maureen O'Hara
#10. Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level?
Muhammad Yunus
#11. The images are designed, so that after you see the picture two or three times, its no longer my film, it starts to be your film, You recognize the people, you know them, and you don't even know who directed the picture. PlayTime is nobody.
Jacques Tati
#12. The only time I go on the set is when I have a cameo to do in the picture. I go to the set and I do my little cameo and I meet all the people. It's a great way to spend the day. And then I go back to my own world.
Stan Lee
#13. The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas ... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.
Mark Rothko
#14. I have the picture of Barack [Obama] and me dancing right outside of my dressing room door, I see it every single day, and it makes me very happy.
Ellen DeGeneres
#15. You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They could put music in the picture! That's how it all began.
Stanley Donen
#16. I think you get the picture. [1976] was a year that like all years, a lot of things happened in. People were on TV or in movies, they wrote songs that were liked more than other songs, while other people excelled at sports, and, as always, a lot of accomplished and famous people died.
Carrie Fisher
#17. For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most luminously of the future, as the span of that passion makes us believe we can overleap any walls, obliterate whatever obstacles.
Chang-rae Lee
#18. The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at full length.
Jane Brereton
#19. When a man goes back to look at the house of his childhood, it has always shrunk: There is no instance of such a house being as big as the picture in memory and imagination call for.
Mark Twain
#20. We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage.
Arthur Hiller
#21. I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.
Kristen Stewart
#22. How do you introduce boyfriend C to boyfriend A after boyfriend A has been such a good sport, of late, about boyfriend B, who is no longer in the picture?
Laurell K. Hamilton
#23. You need bravery for compassion. In the picture of your soul, the bravery points are the most beautiful.
Amit Ray
#24. Look from the blind man's eye ... You can paint the picture, the way you like about this world, so why not think positive and make this world more beautiful for yourself and others?
Fawad Afzal Khan
#25. I think the picture in Jet magazine showing Emmett Till's mutilation was probably the greatest media product in the last forty or fifty years because that picture stimulated a lot of interest and anger on the part of blacks all over the country.
Charles Diggs
#26. Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.
Herb Ritts
#27. Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
Steven Pinker
#28. The picture has no religion, no caste, no name,
And the best part about it is that the picture stays the same.
Adhish Mazumder
#29. The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water.
Teju Cole
#30. I decided that in spite of my silence I would demonstrate and reproduce in reality the picture of the church that I saw inside my spirit
Sunday Adelaja
#31. In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.
Bridget Riley
#32. The picture must all come out of the artist's inside. It is the image that lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.
D.H. Lawrence
#33. I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.
John Hawkes
#34. The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient interests, and then attempting to write an opinion which explains the difference between that nude and some other nude has elements of low comedy.
Thurman Arnold
#35. Go to nature with no parti pris. You should not know what your picture is to look like until it is done. Just see the picture that is coming.
Joaquin Sorolla
#36. Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that?
Please try to describe the picture as much vocabulary as possible!
Deyth Banger
#37. But we are in any case mistaken if we think of our picture of the world as a passive record. The picture is made by, it is made of, our activity, all the way from the logic of the brain to the use of the plow and the wheel.
Jacob Bronowski
#38. I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to figure out (a) just say 'Thank you' and sign the thing, and (b) smile in the picture, because if you try to just half-smile you're going to look constipated.
Joss Whedon
#39. Don't climb on that, don't break anything, don't be so aggressive, don't be so noisy, don't be so messy, don't make such crazy risks. But God's design - which He placed in boys as the picture of Himself - is a resounding yes. Be fierce, be wild, be passionate.
John Eldredge
#40. And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.
Lucian Freud
#41. On the wall of his rehabilitation room was a picture of the space shuttle blasting off, autographed by every astronaut now at NASA. On top of the picture it says, "We found nothing is impossible." That should be our motto.
Christopher Reeve
#42. You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.
Arthur Goldberg
#43. I trace the letters on the tree behind us in the picture. No one knows what's churning inside of me. Crushing guilt...Pain...Relief. All mixed with knowledge that Trip is never coming back.
Jennifer Shaw Wolf
#44. The ambition of instantaneous photography ... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker had a modifying influence on what was going on.
Rudolf Arnheim
#45. The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.
Robert McAfee Brown
#46. A good headline can make an advertisement good even if the picture is poor.
John Caples
#47. Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated.
Howard Fineman
#48. Life's the picture. But all good photographers know you gotta have the right lens.
Lamar Giles
#49. The task of writing a novel is to imagine a world
a world that first exists as a picture before it eventually takes the form of words. Only later do we express through words the picture we imagine, so that readers can share this product of the imagination.
Orhan Pamuk
#50. The picture should be fecund. It must bring a world to birth.
Joan Miro
#51. Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner ... ?
Francesca Woodman
#52. There are no true monsters, only some people [ ... ] who with regularity acted like a monster. It's still episodic. [ ... ] It never works when you leave out even a small part of the picture.
Jim Harrison
#53. But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?
Walter Lippmann
#54. I really never thought about the way I looked until boys came into the picture.
Georgia Jagger
#55. I sit there on the floor with the picture in front of me and think about how things get broken all the time by accident, and how sometimes you just don't get round to getting them fixed.
Paula Hawkins
#56. Every individual," wrote another enormously perceptive portrayer of ordinary life, Harriet Beecher Stowe, "is part and parcel of a great picture of the society in which he lives and acts, and his life cannot be painted without reproducing the picture of the world he lived in.
Jack Larkin
#57. I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
Henri Matisse
#58. The visual of Satan isn't one of a big red devil with horns. Even worse, it's the picture of something good, twisted enough to be compelling.
Todd Stocker
#59. Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture.
Robert Henri
#60. Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.
Richelle Mead
#61. 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
#62. Step 7: Oak Wood Outline Build a row of oak wood on the 1st and the 4th block below the ceiling between the pillars. Follow the blue lines in the picture and do this on all four sides. Check out the 2nd picture to see how the tree house should look by now.
Johan Loof
#63. The hardest thing, as a producer, is to find a director who does the picture for all the right reasons, and not just because they know it's successful or that they can do a good job, but in their bones, they love that genre.
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
#64. There just seems to be more acceptance now of ... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.
Tim Roth
#65. (1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees and the better his chance of getting good results. (2) Even slight changes in subject approach can make significant differences in the effect of the picture.
Andreas Feininger
#66. The picture must be ... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.
Mark Rothko
#67. As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.
Warren Buffett
#68. Language is power that gets abused all the time, Robin, but we've got real enemies out there somewhere and until they're out of the picture, I won't get knotted up over people who don't get all the words right. It's a waste of energy.
Tim Eldred
#69. When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
Iain Duncan Smith
#70. People have shapes.All we do and say and think and believe cuts outlines around us like a jigsaw.And sometimes, you run into a person who seems to fit right beside you in the picture.Someone who sticks out where you dent in and zigs where you zag.
Ben Stephenson
#71. I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture, because there's nowhere to "escape" to on the planet in pursuit of a hermetic pastoralism or a redemptive wilderness sublime.
Michael Light
#72. A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.
Pete Seeger
#73. In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
Sri Aurobindo
#74. I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.
Andre Kertesz
#75. People found me ugly and weird looking. All those years of that whole insecurity thing just makes you feel horrible then really slowly you start to think if they can make me look nice in the picture then it's not that bad.
Lara Stone
#76. I pictured him in uniform. Let's just say the picture was ... nice.
Kim Harrington
#77. The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.
Peter Bart
#78. There's this whole other element of film scoring, which is the social and psychological side of how you're dealing with people ... And that is not always in sync with what's right for the picture.
Marco Beltrami
#79. 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
#80. Really the truth is just a plain picture. A plain picture of, let's say, a tramp vomiting in the sewere. You know, and next door to the picture Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. C. W. Jones on the subway going to work. You know, any kind of picture. Just make a collage of pictures.
Bob Dylan
#81. Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every separate part will be visible and ... everything which has no utility in the picture is for that reason harmful.
Henri Matisse
#82. Just 'cause I'm the picture of manly perfection doesn't mean I don't have a brain.
Joanna Wylde
#83. One of these people - a Canadian, of all things - stands at the picture's center, organizing the many smaller pictures into a coherent whole. His willingness to throw open a window on the American financial world, and to show people what it has become, still takes my breath away.
Michael Lewis
#84. They put the picture in the window when they have something, take it away when they don't. Sign language.
Margaret Atwood
#85. Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.
Alfred Einstein
#86. What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.
Socrates
#87. And you know, aunt, I still hope that I shall be found to have kept on the right side of the posts. You will find that poor Lord Chiltern is not so black as he is painted.' 'But why take anybody that is black at all?' 'I like a little shade in the picture, aunt.
Anthony Trollope
#88. The Istiqlal was powerful, which did not at all coincide with his conception of it, nor with the picture the organization painted of itself: a purely defensive group of selfless martyrs who were willing to brave the brutality of the French in order to bring hope to their suffering countrymen.
Paul Bowles
#89. I have the picture in my mind of how emotional I will feel if I win again.
Yani Tseng
#90. I cannot tell you much about the picture- it depends on so many things, the first of which that comes to my mind is: splendid as he is, is there too much of Spencer Tracy.
Basil Rathbone
#91. I'm familiar with the Palestinian mentality, the culture, religion, and when I had information coming in on a daily basis: secrets about personal lives, politicians, what they are hiding from their society that most people don't see, I started to see the picture in a different way.
Mosab Hassan Yousef
#93. I saw a painting once where the artist had actually done that
signed his work in blood ... When I saw that, I thought it was as if the man who had painted the picture wanted to say to me, Well, you did ask what this actually cost.
Neil Bartlett
#94. Life is a photograph too, so thank you,
for not removing yourself from the picture just yet.
Meggie Royer
#95. For what it's worth," Dad says, running his fingers over the picture, "I've never seen anyone run faster than Henry after you hurt your knee last week.
Miranda Kenneally
#96. An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in a single image. I t just feels that way.
Sarah Dessen
#97. People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.
Jo Brand
#99. The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.
Paul Klee
#100. I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is the most important part of being a photographer. The actual shooting is of lesser importance.
Jay Maisel
