Pictures Quotes
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Ann Winder-Boyle’s small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look – they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.
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I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
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The mirror we hold up to the person next to us is one of the most important pictures she will ever see.
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Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.
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I work on stories rather than individual pictures.
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Back in the day, no one had digital cameras. They took these pictures of me, got them developed, and then mailed them to me.
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What does it mean to go deeper? Taking pictures when you're more emotional or sorrowful, or having sex? I just want to have really boring snapshots - people just standing in front of a camera taking pictures with a smile.
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You look back and see pictures of yourself, or hear an old song, and you know where that came from or why you were working on that - but you don't want to do that again. You don't necessarily hate it, but you're a very different person now, so, in that way you do.
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The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.
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I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.
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It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable.
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A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
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People are self-conscious at first. But it gets better as we kind of dance with each other... it's like a date, in a way. We get more comfortable together. The best pictures are usually the last ones.
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I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot.
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Meeting fans and taking pictures is an extra I would like to offer when time and energy allow it. It's not something a fan can presume to have.
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My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.
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I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.
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For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.
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If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?
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Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff inside doesn't change. People say you can't judge a book by its cover but that's not true because it says right on the cover what's inside. And no matter how many times you read that book the words and pictures don't change. You can open and close books a million times and they stay the same. They look the same. They say the same words. The charts and pictures are the same colors. Books are not like people. Books are safe.
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Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so painfully conscious of everything I said. I drank on and felt the great soft wave approach and embrace me; the dark hour began to fill with pictures and stealthily the noiseless procession of dreams appeared again superimposed on the dreary, grey landscape of existence.
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They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.
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It is easy to take good pictures, difficult to take very good pictures, and almost impossible to take great pictures.
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All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.
