Picture Quotes
130 quotes
"Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second."
"The last time somebody pointed out that cowboys ride horses, not tricycles, I shot him. Of course, I waited until another gunslinger gunned him down, but nevertheless, I still shot him."
"I can't throw away cologne because that is Nostalgia in a Bottle, the scent of yesterday, and it reminds me of her more clearly than her picture."
"A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably."
"I see your picture and in that picture I didn't see you."
"A netizen speaks normally about one’s life’s first priority or preference through the profile picture; it’s often the person seen therein, but it could also be the product on which s/he lays the hand on or seen as an inset in this selfish and materialistic world."
"When you're at a loss for words. Draw a picture."
"All she captures is a moment and what she calls it is a memory,Sometimes, it is assumptions that we use; all we need is a theory,Because you don’t know what is there in the future,And all you need is a vision to make a perfect picture.I feel that I have known you for a century,And whatever she calls is a memory."
"In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures."
"Procrastination and excuses really have the energy to make your picture small and blurred if you offer them that image!"
"If a picture paints a thousand words, then a naked picture paints a thousand words without any vowels...."
"Snake pulled out the digital camera and decided to play a joke on Otacon. He snapped a picture of the pinup, muttered, "Good," and closed the door."
"A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order."
"We need to analyze our picture of the world"
"They can award me with the greatest accolades and reward me with the finest diamonds. They can name days and streets after me, canonise and celebrate me. They can make me the queen of their kingdom, the president of their nation. They can carry my picture in their wallets and whisper my name in their prayers but, tell me, what is all this worth if your voice isn’t the one calling me home?"
"You ought to have a vivid picture of what you want."
"If the pieces do not fit into your puzzle...Try a different picture"
"I used to be lost in us. Blurred were the lines that separated us. But now, I see our togetherness in our separateness. I see the you in me and the me in you. We are two independent beings who complement one another like photographs that are beautiful on their own but are enhanced when juxtaposed, creating an altogether new photograph."
"Despite my incessant desperation, I simply cannot paint the perfect picture within which I would wish to live out my life. And because I cannot, God picked up the brush of love, positioned the canvas of history and painted a manger."
"My everlasting Summer fills heart with laughter like a blooming flower... Her diverse sounds is nature's symphony, sprinkle delight, with comfort of ocean breeze which needs no attest.. The unique every moment of soul's revival and its sun to shine..."
"You need bravery for compassion. In the picture of your soul, the bravery points are the most beautiful."
"I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell you so."
"Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things."
"The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it."
"Photoghraphic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime."
"The serenity of the lulling ocean is a wondrous thing to behold..more precious than the gems coveted and covered in platinum or gold..."
"You are the Poem I dreamed of writing, the Masterpiece I longed to paint. You are the shining Star I reached for in my ever hopeful quest for life fulfilled. Yes, I am Blessed."
"If you don’t capture the moments, it will be gone forever."
"I decided that in spite of my silence I would demonstrate and reproduce in reality the picture of the church that I saw inside my spirit"
"Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can't read the predictable features, it reacts with alarm or aversion. Faces which don’t fit in the picture are socially banned. An ugly countenance, a hideous outlook can be considered as a crime and criminals must be inexorably discarded from society. ( "Ugly mug offense" )"
"Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own conscience. Self-image is the picture of yourself carried in your own mind."
"Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own consciousness. Self-image is the picture of yourself carried in your own mind. That picture can scare you or inspire you!"
"This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive."
"Become a positive person by seeing the bigger picture of whatever you dream of doing. Dream big and act big! It’s your time to have a bigger image of you!"
"People sometimes get so lost in their own beliefs that they fail to gain truth and understanding. You can't get the whole picture just by relying on your own perception. Never be afraid of the truth."
"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical."
"Pragmatism is good prevention for problems."
"I stare past her at the inspirational kitten posters. There's one of a soaking-wet kitten climbing out of a toilet with the caption "it could be worse!""Just tell me whatever it is you're thinking," Mrs. Paulsen says. "Whatever is going through your mind right now.""I hope they didn't actually drop a cat in the toilet to get that picture," I choke out. "...Pardon?""Nothing. Sorry."
"Blurred is the picture, To not know what's next! Is it the laughter that awaits, Or sorrows lined up to dictate. Untold, unclear is...A story of our fate!"
"To dream" means to focus and zoom the photos of destiny called visions for clearer view, manipulation and exploitation."
"Nightmares are not dreams. A good dream does not leave the dreamer in darkness, confusion and terror. Start having dreams, not nightmares!"
"Past is a picture that has been viewed already, and there's nothing more to learn from it, so we need to stop looking at the same picture again and again and start making a better picture for the future, so that when someday we look back the picture's made by us, instead of regretting we cherish it."
"when the picture is too close to your face you lose the sight, when the future is too close to your face you see the light."
"A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if I were to abstractly paint the phrase "I love you," it would be the visual equivalent of Joyce's Ulysses.-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz"
"…although her mouth uttered fond words, her eyes spoke only venom."
"Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed to inspire me: Yardscrabble, Big Log, Upper, Middle and Lower Pigsty, Chicken Scratch, Cooterville, Felchville, Dust Rag, Dough Bag, Uranus Ridge, Big Bottom, Hooter Holler, Quickskillet, Buck Wallow, Possum Strut ... We always say a picture speaks a thousand words, but isn’t the opposite equally true?"
"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."
"I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism."
Denis Diderot, Thoughts on the Interpretation of Nature and Other Philosophical Works
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