Picture Quotes
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A womb is maybe the most oft-overlooked picture of God’s heart that there is.
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...and if you want to see a picture of Nils.
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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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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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In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.
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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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For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You have the literalness of a glass on a table - and at the same time of that evidential authority that you can't get around, there is the possibility of universalizing the subject - of getting the whole world into the picture.
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A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
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If you get to the top on your own, who'll take the picture?
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The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.
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But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since we can't picture something without form in our minds, for the sake of convenience we understand it as a straight line. At this point, humans are the only ones who can make that sort of conceptual substitution.
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As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as a great surprise - who did that? How did it happen? Being surprised by your own work makes you both less serious and have serious reverence.
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Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.
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If a picture wasn't going very well, I'd put a puppy in it.
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You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.
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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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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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For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.
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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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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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Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it's particularly tough when it's being documented and you see the person's picture everywhere. Most people don't have that added problem when they break up with someone.
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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 need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If you don’t tell them or write them down, if you don’t make the picture, these things will not be seen, these things will not be heard.
