Picture Quotes

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

~ Robert Capa

For a selfie, it's not about the pose, it's about you. There's a reason why you look great in the picture or you look great in real life, because someone has caught the essence of who you are, and a pose is not you.

~ Nigel Barker

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.

~ Ridley Scott

The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture.

~ Debbie Stabenow

I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I'd found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.

~ Emma Watson

If I go away, I take a little picture of my son. It's in a frame with a speaker, and he recorded a birthday message for me when he was nine or 10. I can't listen to it without filling up.

~ Lesley Manville

I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face.

~ Grace Kelly

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

~ Sam Peckinpah

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

As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.

~ Campbell Brown

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

~ Cecil B. Demille

Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.

~ Anthony Browne

I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

~ Rachel Bilson

Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.

~ Leonard Maltin

Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.

~ Patrick Demarchelier

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

~ Ronald Reagan

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

~ Robert Collier

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

~ Ll Cool J

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

~ Maxwell Maltz

A picture is a poem without words.

~ Horace

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

~ Georges Braque

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

~ Peter Hammill

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

~ Jake Owen

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

~ Alfred Sisley

In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.

~ Kathleen Troia Mcfarland

When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.

~ Marianne Williamson

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

~ Mark Rydell

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.

~ Conrad Hall

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

~ Norman Jewison

And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

~ Norman Jewison

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.

~ Georg Simmel

In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry.

~ Gene Luen Yang

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

~ Aeschylus

For all my success with the Ramones, I carried around fury and intensity during my career. I had an image, and that image was anger. I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken.

~ Johnny Ramone

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

~ James Lafferty

Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.

~ Edward Felten

When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!

~ David Twohy