Pictures Quotes - page 3

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book. (Helen Dunmore)
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. View quote
Lady Randolph Churchill
If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper. View quote
Lynn Johnston
There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there. View quote
Mike Figgis
Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures. View quote
Richard Widmark
People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed. View quote
Ray Davies
My house is a bit like a teenager's bedroom. The kind of pictures you have hanging up on your wall say a lot about you. I've got ones of Evel Knievel, Elvis and Starsky and Hutch, signed by David Soul. View quote
Tim Vine
But surrealism is present in most of my pictures. View quote
Vincente Minnelli
The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events. View quote
Will McDonough
That's how my career started. Every one of those pictures... came from filmmakers who had to make a comment that racism is wrong. View quote
Sidney Poitier
[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo. (Mary Pickford)
The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. [...] It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around. View quote
Mary Pickford
I don't care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have the stigma of being in a category that's going to be inhabited by the very worst of pictures. View quote
Jack Valenti
I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well. View quote
M. C. Escher
An art thief is a man who takes pictures. View quote
George Carlin
The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me. View quote
Joan Miró
Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them. View quote
Emil Nolde
Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy. View quote
Susan Sontag
In 1915 Sophie Taeuber and I carried out our first works in the simplest forms, using painting, embroidery and pasted paper [without using oil colors to avoid any reference with usual painting]. These were probably the first manifestations of their kind, pictures that were their own reality, without meaning or cerebral intention. We rejected everything in the nature of a copy or a description, in order to give free flow to what was elemental and spontaneous. View quote
Jean Arp
Open your eyes at last and see... now I will open the book of the world for you, there are no words in it, just pictures. View quote
Oskar Kokoschka
I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves. (Oskar Kokoschka)
My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the left-overs from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor. View quote
Yves Klein
I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case. View quote
Lucian Freud
My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters... I'm a painter and I nail my pictures... I'd like to be accepted into the Dada Club. View quote
Kurt Schwitters
Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with all that lies on the banks of the Stour; those scenes made me a painter, and I am grateful; that is, I had often thought of pictures of them before ever I touched a pencil, and your picture ['The White Horse'] is one of the strongest instance I can recollect of it. View quote
John Constable