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.
Andrew Graham-Dixon
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The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was sorrowful. It sang with yearning and sadness, flowing towards its goal ... Siddhartha was now listening intently...to this song of a thousand voices ... then the great song of a thousand voices consisted of one word: Om - Perfection ... From that hour Siddhartha ceased to fight against his destiny.
Hermann Hesse
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With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.
Sun Ra
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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.
Rene Magritte
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'Alien?' Oh, yeah. I still get fanmail almost every week, pictures from all over the world on that movie. That's one of the most popular films I've done.
Harry Dean Stanton
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Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
George Eliot
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It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable.
Noah Hathaway
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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.
Floor Jansen Nightwish
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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.
Nikki S. Lee
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When images are in black and white, they seem timeless. When you see Carrie Otis in an ad from 1989 next to an ad with Klara Wester from 2009, you don't see a 20-year difference between the pictures.
Paul Marciano
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All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.
John Ruskin
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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.
Ansel Adams
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The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
Pablo Picasso
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If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?
Bill Jay
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I like to look at the interface between words and pictures and wonder about which comes first, a sort of chicken-or-egg type of question.
Elaine Equi
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For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.
Emmet Gowin
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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.
Nicholas Nixon
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Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.
Richard Roeper
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There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.
Terrence Malick
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I'm still watching all those old-timers really going along, and I'm enjoying it so much, not just looking at the pictures, but looking at the acting. Paul Muni. Beautiful character. Edward G. Robinson. Jimmy Cagney. All those old boys. You don't find those characters anymore.
Ernest Borgnine
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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.
Erich Maria Remarque
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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.
Eva Mendes
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They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.
Marilyn Monroe
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Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words.
Immanuel Kant