Picture Quotes

• At the age of eight, I bought my first telescope and would spend hours gazing at the moon and stars. I remember thinking what it must have been like when man first realized that we were only a very small part of the overall picture.

  

  Daniel Hope
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Age

• Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost instantly, the flip side. You have this terrible, terrible anxiety that you've just taken your last good picture.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Good
  • Feeling

• I looked at one little print for a long time. It was called 'The Landing.' It showed men tugging on a rope, pulling a boat up onto skids out of the water. The thought occurred to me that I might paint such a picture.

  

  Frederick Banting
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• During a color consultation, I like to reference food as a visual. Hot fudge and orange marmalade paint a clearer picture and helps prevent end results that leave you feeling unsatisfied.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Feeling
  • Food
  • Color

• I thought, I hate the thought of a 12, 13 or 14 year-old girl seeing a picture of me and thinking she'll do what I did.

  

  Courtney Thorne-Smith
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Girl

• I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Picture
  • Techniques
  • Fashions

• The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Done

• It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Words
  • Picture

• I saw a picture of a girl using an eyelash curler when I was a kid, and I thought it was some sort of torture device, the eye guillotine.

  

  Jamie Hince
  • Girl
  • Picture

• Conrad Black is a picture of a man hugely enjoying himself.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Man
  • Black
  • Picture

• I know a lot of people think L.A. and they see a picture in their head, but those people obviously don't know me, because I sit on a couch every day. That's my idea of a good time - just being in a sweat suit.

  

  Hayley Williams Paramore
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

  

  Leon Panetta
  • Picture

• Put a puppy in your picture, and it will make it 20 times better.

  

  Lucky Blue Smith
  • Picture
  • Puppy

• That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.

  

  Bert Lahr
  • Career
  • Hurt
  • Lion

• After I posted the picture of Frank Ocean, I think his little brother called him and said the picture was all over the Internet, so Frank Ocean was like, 'I'm not on social media like that, but it's cool. I'm not mad about it.'

  

  Dimitri Leslie Roger
  • Cool
  • Brother
  • Mad

• Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: 'Isn't that that Bening woman?'

  

  Annette Bening
  • People
  • Stop
  • Picture

• Part of our obligation is to ensure that policymakers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matters that might affect national security.

  

  James R. Clapper
  • Picture

• In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Nature
  • Light
  • Color

• We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.

  

  Peter Bart
  • Picture

• The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

  

  Bob Edwards
  • Different
  • Help
  • Perfect

• Tech companies approach you to hold something in a picture and then say, 'This is what I want you to write on your Twitter.' There are people who get away with that and look really cool doing it, but I'm just not one of them.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • People
  • Cool
  • Picture

• 'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose futility arbitrarily.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Black
  • Picture

• Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs.

  

  Denise Fleming
  • Words
  • Action
  • Picture

• To synthesize is not necessarily to simplify in the sense of suppressing certain parts of the object: it is to simplify in the sense of rendering intelligible. It is, in short, to put in hierarchic order: to set each picture to a single rhythm, to a dominant; it is sacrifice, to subordinate - to generalize.

  

  Maurice Denis
  • Single
  • Picture
  • Sacrifice

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