Picture Quotes
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Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
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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.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.
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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.
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I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.
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The story of Hosea and Gomer is the second most powerful picture of God's love in the Bible. Other than Christ's death, there is no greater picture of love.
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I got a message from Downing Street that my picture's hanging in the White House. Which is weird.
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One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.
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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 . . .
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Writing a short story is like painting a picture on the head of a pin. And just getting everything to fit is - sometimes seems impossible. Writing a novel, though, is - has its own challenges of scope. And I think of that as painting a mural, where the challenge is that if you are close enough to work on it, you're too close to see the whole thing.
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If you get to the top on your own, who'll take the picture?
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Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.
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Building a business is like creating a picture & striving to be picture perfect in everything you do.
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I don't care whether a role is 10 minutes long or two hours. And I don't care whether my name is up there on top, either. Matter of fact, I'd rather have someone else get top billing; then if the picture bombs, he gets the blame, not me.
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I think maybe what happened was the convenience of technology overshadowed the experience of holding an album in your hands, and sitting on your bedroom floor, and staring at a picture of John Lennon or Gene Simmons or Johnny Rotten. That tangible experience can sometimes become an even more emotional experience, because it's really happening.
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Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
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A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
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A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.
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I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.
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A womb is maybe the most oft-overlooked picture of God’s heart that there is.
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If there is a single factor which separates the best photographers from the wannabes it is the quantity of images which they produce. They seem to be forever shooting. I have watched many of them as they take picture after picture even when they are not photographing. Often these intimate images do not look as though they were taken by the same photographer. And that is their fascination and charm.
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With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.
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If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.
