Picture Quotes

3250 Picture quotes by 2178 unique authors

I never meant to be a sexual object for anyone but my husband. I never thought a picture of my body would be tacked up… — Lynda Carter
When my old man wanted sex, my mother would show him a picture of me. — Rodney Dangerfield
If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about… — Lynn Johnston
If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary. — Edward Hopper
I said, ok, I'll pay the licensing fee it. And [the AP] said, no, we want to claim damages. I said damages? Because of my… — Shepard Fairey
The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning… — Robert Hunter
A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or… — Susan Sontag
Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real.… — Walter Lippmann
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff… — Banksy
So many girls out there say, "I'm not a feminist" because they think it means something angry or disgruntled or complaining or they picture, like,… — Taylor Swift
Picture you upon my knee, just tea for two and two for tea. — Irving Caesar
Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing… — Gerhard Richter
Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the… — Otto Dix
I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down… — Edvard Munch
We're going to use Terri Schiavo later on. This is going to be an issue in 2006 and it's going to be an issue in 2008,… — Howard Dean
It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home — David O. McKay
It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be… — Oswald Spengler
I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing. — Peter Weir
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement. — William Stafford
The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a… — Daniel Levitin
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who do… — Edgar Degas
I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after I had finished… — Edgar Degas
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it… — Edgar Degas

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