Pictures Quotes - page 2

The fact is that pictures which are unlike reality ought not be approved, and even if they are technically fine, this is no reason why they should offhand be judged to be correct, if their subject is lacking in the principles of reality carried out with no violations. (Vitruvius)
Pictures must not be too picturesque. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films. View quote
Billy Wilder
An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures. View quote
Wassily Kandinsky
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions. View quote
Elia Kazan
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. View quote
Rene Magritte
My eyes make pictures when they are shut. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too. View quote
Randall Munroe
In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor. View quote
Richard Donner
One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since. (Beverly Cleary)
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. View quote
Eugenio Montale
I don't make deals, I make pictures. View quote
Carlo Ponti
Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone. View quote
Cornelia Funke
At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration. View quote
Chris Van Allsburg
The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word. View quote
Bob Edwards
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. View quote
Robert Mapplethorpe
I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else. View quote
Alan Ladd
Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures. View quote
Alex Cox
I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination. View quote
Billy Sherwood
A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures. (Ben Shneiderman)
I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things. View quote
Dick York
If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason. View quote
Douglas Sirk
I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style. View quote
Douglas Sirk
I like form and shape and strength in pictures. View quote
Herb Ritts