Picturing Quotes

32 quotes by 30 authors

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious… — Gerhard Richter
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing… — Christopher Hitchens
Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it. A photographer down… — Robert Adams
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken. — Kenneth Burke
To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. — Philip Guston
Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this… — Wayne Dyer
All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life… — Haniel Long
There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls… — Ken Jennings
I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have… — J D Salinger
When we adoptâ€”and when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communitiesâ€”weâ€™re picturing something thatâ€™s true about our God. We, like Jesus,… — Russell D. Moore
My Dad always told me that casting agencies are like artists picturing their paintings in their mind. They know what they want for a role… — Miley Cyrus
I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther. — Martin E. Marty
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside,… — Bertrand Russell
Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's… — J D Salinger
This has been her problem all her life: picturing other people's responses. She's too good at it. She can picture the response of anyone--other people's… — Margaret Atwood
We knew we were doomed. The kiss was a warm acceptance of years of bickering, years of me consuming foods that I found barely edible… — Lisa Lutz
As far as informing the headmaster, Harry had no idea where Dumbledore went during the summer holidays. He amused himself for a moment, picturing Dumbledore,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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