Picture Quotes

• Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Character
  • Picture
  • Optimistic

• I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

  

  Lisa See
  • People
  • Picture

• It is the big picture. That is right. That is a fact.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Picture
  • Right
  • Fact

• And then they sign an affidavit swearing that she's not in a vegetative stage. I'll tell you. That's a doctor you really want; they can look at a picture and make a diagnosis.

  

  Michael Schiavo
  • Stage
  • Doctor
  • Diagnosis

• I could never give up Mexican food. Nachos are usually my go-to if I'm courtside at an NBA game. I always, always get my picture taken with my mouth wide open and a tortilla chip sticking out of it!

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Give Up
  • NBA
  • Mexican Food

• ...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully as the lighting, exposure and composition of the photograph.

  

  Arthur Rothstein
  • Words
  • Picture
  • Composition

• Fortunately, taking a picture leaves no mark.

  

  Edward S. Curtis
  • Picture
  • Mark

• It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.

  

  Bill Reid
  • Design
  • Complicated
  • Arrive

• You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

  

  David Hockney
  • History
  • Picture
  • Photography

• I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.

  

  Story Musgrave
  • Universe
  • Picture
  • View

• A sexy picture can come from anyone who forms an intimacy with their subject. You can take a sexy picture of your cat if you want to.

  

  Ellen von Unwerth
  • Sexy
  • Intimacy
  • Subject

• A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Book
  • Picture
  • Man's Action

• If you want me to explain the picture, if you put it in reality, then the mystery goes away. The situation just catches you and you think it is absurd or mysterious and you just take the picture. You dont want to see the bare reality of what happened. I took the picture as the picture, not as the realistic story of what happened.

  

  Eva Fuka
  • Reality
  • Explain
  • Catches

• The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Picture
  • Distance

• What's great is that the picture is already taken before it goes public. It's in secret. The trust that develops from such a habit engenders risk, and you realise you're not as vulnerable as you thought. Once you become comfortable with being more truthful about who you are, the easier it is, the prouder you become. That's the way it unfolded for us.

  

  Emmet Gowin
  • Risk
  • Secret
  • Truthful

• While primarily a photographer, I do not see or think photographically; hence the story of Indian life will not be told in microscopic detail, but rather will be presented as a broad and luminous picture.

  

  Edward S. Curtis
  • Photographer
  • Indian
  • Detail

• I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on.

  

  Brice Marden
  • Hat
  • Painters
  • Rothko

• 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.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Emotion
  • Manage
  • Prevent

• I think TV is a medium where you can be entertained, you can be informed, you can relax and you can escape whenever you want. There's no other media, exception for fictional books, where you can do that. But additional to books you also have the picture, it's not only the text and that's the reason why, in terms of getting to the heart of the people, getting to the emotions of people, TV is the ideal media to get them. There is no other media who can do that.

  

  Gerhard Zeiler
  • Picture
  • Media
  • Emotions

• If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Game
  • Picture
  • Thoughts

• There's a lot of research and time that goes into my shoots. I spend weeks on them, even for one picture.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • Time
  • Picture

• The biggest surprise was a picture my mom sent me, just about the time that we were about to wrap up the book, of me as a 5-year-old dressed in my first Halloween costume that she made for me. I said, "What's this? I never saw this photo." And she said, "We made you this black-and-orange Halloween costume out of crepe paper" - we were too poor to have fabric back then - "and you wanted to go as the Queen Of Halloween." And I was like, "What?" And she said, "Yeah, the Princess Of Halloween, the Queen Of Halloween, something like that.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Mom
  • Halloween
  • Costume

• I'm appalled that the word 'feminism' has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture. It isn't about us and them.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • Feminism

• I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful, wonderful animal pictures. All through the years he's given me copies of these pictures. Well, I have all these gorgeous ones, so I said, 'Tad, I want to do a book with your picture on one side.'

  

  Betty White
  • Book
  • Picture
  • Animal

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