Picture Quotes - page 2

Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another. (Jasper Johns)

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

John Constable

Reader, look Not on his picture, but his book.

Ben Jonson

A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here.

Steven Wright

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labor, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

James McNeill Whistler

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

Laurette Taylor

I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.

Jack T. Chick

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Napoleon Hill

But it's not so hard, learning to picture yourself as part of a great chain. One that began long before you, and will go on long after.

David Brin

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, "Nobody tells me what to do." That's exactly how I've felt all my life. (Marlon Brando)

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Francis Bacon

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 enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Doris Lessing

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

Pauline Kael

Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at all but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

Oliver Cromwell

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.

Salman Rushdie

There will... be natural propriety in using an eastern light for bedrooms and libraries, a western light in winter for baths and winter apartments, and a northern light for picture galleries and other places in which a steady light is needed; for that quarter of the sky grows neither light nor dark with the course of the sun, but remains steady and unshifting all day long.

Vitruvius

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

Francis Ford Coppola

We got a real clear picture of what they all value. Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first hundred days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, 'unchain Wall Street.'

Joe Biden

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it. (Albert Einstein)

The logical picture of the facts is the thought. (3)

Ludwig Wittgenstein

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

Ronald Reagan

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

Cecil B. DeMille

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

Beverly Cleary

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