Books Quote by James Murray

Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

— Steven Saylor

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

— Steven Saylor

There is a beauty of seeing a picture and making out what the story behind it might be.

— Gautam Rode

Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening. Almost the…

— Garry Winogrand

Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history…

— Peter van Agtmael

Working with existing pictures, like I do, you constantly think about the flood of images we are subjected to and you want to figure…

— Thomas Demand

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was…

— Lucian Freud

I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.

— Brian Selznick

The pictures come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worthwhile picture I paint it I do over the…

— Horace Pippin

It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of…

— Chuck Close

When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.

— Georges St-Pierre

Art is...a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.

— Aaron Howard