Picturing Quotes
32 quotes by 30 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.
— Kenneth Burke
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To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
— Philip Guston
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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When we adopt—and when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communities—we’re picturing something that’s true about our God. We, like Jesus,…
— Russell D. Moore
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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
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I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.
— Martin E. Marty
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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