--- title: "8 Pictures Life Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 8 Pictures Life quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Pictures Life sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ff/sheila-kaye-smith-47380_childhood_pictures-of-my-life-stretch-back-into-wh_866363.jpg" --- > [Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood. ... They are not movies, then, nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-kaye-smith/pictures-of-my-life-stretch-back-into-what-must-have-been-my-very/) [Sheila Kaye-Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-kaye-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ff/sheila-kaye-smith-47380_childhood_pictures-of-my-life-stretch-back-into-wh_866363.jpg) > [I'm not a collector at heart. I'm never tormented by the longing to possess things. I'm quite happy with my pictures. I've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-doisneau/i-m-not-a-collector-at-heart-i-m-never-tormented-by-the-longing-to/) [Robert Doisneau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-doisneau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a1/robert-doisneau-20768_life_i-m-not-a-collector-at-heart-i-m-never-t_976654.jpg) > [“Life is never beautiful, but only the pictures of life are so in the transfiguring mirror of art or poetry; especially in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-schopenhauer/life-is-never-beautiful-but-only-the-pictures-of-life-are-so-in-the/) [Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-schopenhauer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20d/arthur-schopenhauer-226_art_life-is-never-beautiful-but-only-the-pic_1074567.jpg) > [Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-eisenstaedt/yes-i-sold-buttons-to-earn-living-but-i-took-pictures-to-keep-on/) [Alfred Eisenstaedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-eisenstaedt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6c/alfred-eisenstaedt-20057_breathing_yes-i-sold-buttons-to-earn-living-but-i_1141917.png) > [“amanda lifted a large handful of pictures out of the box and dropped them into her lap, flicking through them as they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-noble/amanda-lifted-a-large-handful-of-pictures-out-of-the-box-and-dropped/) [Elizabeth Noble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-noble/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a13/elizabeth-noble-15319_heart_amanda-lifted-a-large-handful-of-picture_1814375.jpg) > [On things she had to pack before leaving her home in advance of a forest fire, 1996. Childhood pictures and pictures of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-maclaine/on-things-she-had-to-pack-before-leaving-her-home-in-advance-of-a/) [Shirley MacLaine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-maclaine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb9/shirley-maclaine-1977_childhood_on-things-she-had-to-pack-before-leaving_1874838.jpg) > [“Man should become very aware when one third (1/3rd) of his life remains that ‘pictures’ of his next life will be taken…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dada-bhagwan/man-should-become-very-aware-when-one-third-1-3rd-of-his-life-remains/) [Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dada-bhagwan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a5/dada-bhagwan-31_cause-and-effect_man-should-become-very-aware-when-one-th_2222882.jpg) > [That's one of the troubles of photography; the implication that what you have in that photograph is the way it is, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-richards/that-s-one-of-the-troubles-of-photography-the-implication-that-what/) [Eugene Richards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-richards/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79a/eugene-richards-38595_history_that-s-one-of-the-troubles-of-photograph_2615865.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pictures-life/#itemlist", "name": "Pictures Life Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood. ... 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