Pictures Quotes

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? (Pablo Picasso)
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles; my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures. View quote
William M. Tweed
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses. View quote
Richard Donner
If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough. View quote
Robert Capa
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. View quote
George W. Bush
I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to. View quote
Norman Rockwell
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures. View quote
Laraine Day
Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If there is oxygen, then w. (Dan Quayle)
A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures. View quote
Alan Perlis
My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task. View quote
Pierre Loti
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. View quote
Annie Leibovitz
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything. View quote
William Hazlitt
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me. View quote
Luise Rainer
What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts? View quote
Joshua Reynolds
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships. (Leo Burnett)
What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations? View quote
Lewis Carroll
So geographers, in Afric Marriages, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. View quote
Jonathan Swift
If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves. View quote
Douglas Adams
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. View quote
William Wordsworth