Picture Quotes

• I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Real
  • Picture

• Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Picture

• I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion. Boisgeloup, winter 1934.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Done
  • Winter

• I treat paintings as I treat objects. If a window in a picture looks wrong, I close it and draw the curtains, just as I would do in my own room.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Picture

• It was an extremely trying time for me. Best was still intimate with MacLeod and the others about the laboratory. I was out of the picture entirely. MacLeod had taken over the whole physiological investigation. Collip had taken over the biochemistry. Professor Graham and Dr. Campbell had taken over the whole clinical aspect of the investigation.

  

  Frederick Banting
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Taken

• While it's easy to sit back and cherry pick bad visual effects and blame the industry for making movies the way they are, you're really not seeing the whole picture.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Bad
  • Picture

• When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.

  

  David Bailey
  • People
  • Home
  • Stop

• I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words.

  

  Jane Yolen
  • Children
  • Words
  • Amazing

• Watching people see your picture for the first time is such a public agony.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • People
  • Time
  • Picture

• It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

  

  Alan Rudolph
  • Up
  • Picture

• He Manet begged me to go straight up and see his painting 'Le Balcon' - Berthe was model for this painting, as he was rooted to the spot. I've never seen anyone in such a state, one minute he was laughing, the next insisting his picture was dreadful; in the next breath, sure it would be a huge success.

  

  Berthe Morisot
  • Up
  • Success
  • Painting

• They say they can't believe it, it's a sacrilegious shame Now, who would want to hurt such a hero of the game? But you know I predicted it; I knew he had to fall How did it happen? I hope his suffering was small. Tell me every detail, I've got to know it all, And do you have a picture of the pain?

  

  Phil Ochs
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Game

• Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Jesus

• So what are we saying?Our Eden's a failure.A made-up story to fit the picture-perfect world.The one with 'I do's and 'I love you.'And 'we are made for each other.'Is forever over now?

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Up
  • World
  • Perfect

• There's more to a picture than meets the eye.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Picture

• Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Facts

• The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was taking my picture, so when he told me to get in the bathtub, I just did. It's only now, looking back, that I realise, you don't have to do everything people tell you.

  

  Matt Damon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Guy

• My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and if someone wanted to know who this person was, they could take one of these pictures and it would tell who the person was.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Die
  • Ideas
  • Years

• Men will shop, but they only shop when they need something. Women shop with passion and because it's enjoyable, and for some, it's even entertainment. All you have to do is step into a mall and see how many stores are geared towards men and how many are geared towards women, and you'll get the picture.

  

  Brian Lee
  • Men
  • Women
  • Passion

• This picture will try to show the Nazism is a matter of mind, not geography, and that there are Nazis - and people of good will - in every country. The world can't spend its life looking over its shoulder and nursing hatreds. There would be no progress that way.

  

  Marlon Brando
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Important
  • Legend
  • Legends

• That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

  

  Alberto Giacometti
  • Picture

• The picture of change in human society that emerges from this recent research throws new light on that aspect of the Transition that has been called the ‘Upper Palaeolithic Revolution’ and the ‘Creative Explosion’ – that time when recognizably modern skeletons, behaviour and art seem to have appeared in western Europe as a ‘package deal’.

  

  David Lewis-Williams
  • Society
  • Change
  • Human

• Take My Picture, Hollywood! I Wanna Be a Star!

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Star
  • Picture

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