Picture Quotes
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Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
Anthony Trollope
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I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.
Nan Goldin
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It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .
Charles Dickens
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Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well.
Evan Mandery
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I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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Every picture tells a story, don't it?
Rod Stewart
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The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.
Mick Ebeling
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If you can picture yourself doing anything… else, then you should do that and not this.
Nikka Graff Lanzarone
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I may juggle the composition, as the strength of a picture is in the composition. Or I may play with the light. But I never interfere with the subject. The subject has to fall into place on its own and, if I don't like it, I don't have to print it.
George Rodger
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All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.
Steven Spielberg
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Sometimes two people could look at the same picture and see different images. Position determines perspective.
Nikki Turner