Pictures Quotes

He's a tourist. He takes pictures of people's lives, puts them in a scrapbook, and moves on. All he's interested in is stories. Basically Leslie, he's selfish. And you're not. That's why you don't like him.

~ Ron Swanson

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

~ Walt Disney Company

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fog in the valleys; cellos, dark window-panes, snow.

~ Donna Tartt

I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.

~ Helen Oyeyemi

Life is about changes and opportunities. We don’t always get a perfect picture.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

We can all take pictures but not everyone can capture the beauty that's usually hidden in plain view...We can all open our mouth to sing but not everyone can melodically touch your soul...We can all pick up a pen to write but not everyone can write words in such a way that they leap off of the page for you...We can all part our lips to speak but not everyone can speak life into you...We can all move our bodies to a beat but not everyone can become one with music, stir emotions and shift energy with dance...Point is: WE CAN all do something but Know your gifts, cultivate them and ALWAYS, ALWAYS BE YOURSELF! Then working together becomes effortless. Copies aren't accepted everywhere...ORIGINALS are eventually required!

~ Sanjo Jendayi

They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.

~ Luke Taylor

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

~ Orson Welles

Hello, Bradley,' said Mom. She'd regained her composure after my outburst, and now raised her camera. 'Stand close.''No, Mom,' I said. 'No pictures.''But you're friend's here now,' she said, waving us together. 'Smile!''I don't need a picture with-' the flash snapped '-another guy. That's great, Mom, thank you. Send that one to Dad and tell him we're going steady.

~ Dan Wells

What Kate wore, whether on the street or the red carpet was much cooler to them than what she modelled. Her paparazzi photos were becoming indistinguishable from her editorials.

~ Maureen Callahan

When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

~ Gayle Forman

What i Like about Photography is that it takes moments that should have been forgotten, and just Freezes them, and allows us to share it with everyone and share it with future generations. But theirs is also the sense of Secrets of the picture, or the stuff you don’t know, or don’t see. You don’t really know what happened before or after a picture its like time is just frozen in that moment.

~ Jesús Holguin

And I have seen people on Facebook with their real names and own pictures but fake personalities.

~ Jasmine Kiyani

She knew her place in this family, always had. Knew why she was conceived. And it wasn't for a photo on the mantle.

~ Kelly Moran

Why say then Buddha never carried gun? he didn't play piano, we do not know of him making pictures either.

~ Suman Pokhrel

Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.

~ Anne Sexton

We know that children with autism like order, that they are often very visual and that they can be quite literal. They deserve beautiful resources and symbols that make sense. If a picture does not explain visually, it is pointless and the child will stop looking to the pictures for information.

~ Adele Devine

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

~ Michael Douglas

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

~ Roger Corman

Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

~ Kevin Brownlow

My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

~ Ingmar Bergman

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

~ John Dryden

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

~ David Hockney

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

~ Herb Ritts

My whole family is lactose intolerant and when we take pictures we can't say cheese.

~ Jay London

I came to the plain fields of Ohio with pictures painted by Hollywood movies and the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. None of them had much to say, if at all, about Dayton, Ohio.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

~ Vera Wang

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

~ John Wayne

Let's make some funny pictures.

~ Tex Avery

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

~ William Wordsworth

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

~ Robert Mapplethorpe

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

~ Joshua Reynolds

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

~ David Hockney

My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures.

~ Ashton Kutcher

I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim.

~ Michael Douglas

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

~ Peter Porter

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

~ Fra Angelico

I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.

~ Camila Alves