Picture Quotes

3250 Picture quotes by 2178 unique authors

Motherly love is not much use if it expresses itself only as a warm gush of emotion, delicately tinged with pink. It must also be… — Rachel Billington
I want to be a positive role model, especially for kids and Aboriginal people... When people see me, often all they see is another Australian… — Cathy Freeman
The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is… — Stephen Covey
People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write. — Kurt Vonnegut
I was so ugly that my parents sent my picture to 'ripley's believe it or not' - they sent it back and said, "we don't… — Joan Rivers
There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph. — Robert Heinecken
Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk. — Edward Weston
This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you… — Robert Pattinson
Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real condition of children… — Richard Farson
What is either a picture or a novel that is not character? — Henry James
In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For… — Anton Chekhov
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose… — Lionel Shriver
Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It… — George Will
All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times — Rosemary Wells
I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words… — Maurice Sendak
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil. — W. Eugene Smith
The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment." — John Loengard
I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I… — Garry Winogrand
It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I… — Lee Friedlander
However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the… — Aaron Siskind
I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's nothing much interesting… — Mary Ellen Mark
What I feel is that the picture-taking process, anyway a greater part of it, is an intuitive thing. You can't go out and logically plan… — Wynn Bullock

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