Picture Quotes
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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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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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It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.
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A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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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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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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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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A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
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...and if you want to see a picture of Nils.
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A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement.
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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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Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture is good, it's mysterious, with things unsaid.
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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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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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I've often tried to imagine my dream role and what that would truly mean. I'm not sure I've reached a clear picture of it yet, but I have always said the reason I wanted to act was ultimately to develop characters that evoke emotion and consequently change lives.
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A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
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Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.
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We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.
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It goes without saying that I will do anything at any price to pull myself out of a situation like this [rejection] so that I can start work immediately on my next Salon picture and ensure that such a thing should not happen again.
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Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
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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.
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Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.
Etel Adnan -
I got a message from Downing Street that my picture's hanging in the White House. Which is weird.
