Pictures Quotes
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I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.
Sigmar Polke -
If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?
Bill Jay
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I'm going to get down to a still life on a size 50 canvas of rayfish and dogfish with old fishermen's baskets. Then I'm going to turn out a few pictures to send wherever possible, given that now, first and foremost - unfortunately - I have to earn some money.
Claude Monet -
Honor the old art form; Take pictures that are going to last forever. I want to do the definitive picture of the person in the moment, I say it all the time and it’s the clearest way that I can describe what I do.
Jonathan Mannion -
Before they read words, children are reading pictures.
David Wiesner -
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 -
That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.
Melissa de la Cruz -
These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.
Norton Simon
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Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.
Melissa de la Cruz -
I also realise power is fleeting, it doesn't last forever in this career, so I want to make the most of it. I want to make the kinds of pictures that interest me, it's as simple as that. I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.
Tom Cruise -
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 -
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 -
All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.
Emmet Gowin -
I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but at least artists will just be stimulated by it all.
Eric Drooker
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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 -
The mirror we hold up to the person next to us is one of the most important pictures she will ever see.
Seth Godin -
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 -
The list of photographs that I am missing while I sit on airport runways, teach classes or spend hours in the studio makes my head spin. It's almost as if I can actually sense all the great pictures that I'm missing at a given moment. It's times like those that remind me to be very productive when I do get behind-the-camera time.
Brian Ulrich -
They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.
John Ruskin -
With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.
Sun Ra
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A photographic session is a joint, interpersonal exchange, a kind of creative encounter session at a high level of intensity. For me, photography is more a process of creating an experience than one of looking for pictures.
Norman Seeff -
I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turns into an adventure, and then into a project.
Nicholas Nixon -
The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.
Dan Yaccarino -
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