Picture Quotes

3250 Picture quotes by 2178 unique authors

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects. — Wassily Kandinsky
There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward and it can… — Stephen Shore
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of… — Stephen Shore
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not… — Ambrose Bierce
When I make a picture, I make love. — Alfred Stieglitz
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely… — Arthur Schopenhauer
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture. — Edmond de Goncourt
Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion. — Bill Hybels
To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong. — Vladimir Lenin
With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the… — Jo Ann Emerson
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. — Albrecht Durer
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy,… — John French Sloan
My writing is a picture of the mind moving. — Philip Whalen
In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains. — 2 Chainz
When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures. Only two color… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of… — Eckhart Tolle
The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when they see it.… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
Another picture I hope to be remembered by is this one of the drum major rehearsing at the University of Michigan. It was early in… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with… — Sebastiao Salgado
Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed… — Rube Goldberg
I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that… — Billy Wilder
I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like… — Billy Wilder

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