Picture Quotes

A picture is a poem without words. (Horace)
The human body is the best picture of the human soul. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. View quote
Edward Weston
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You don't take a picture, you make a picture. View quote
Ansel Adams
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company. View quote
Walt Disney
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. View quote
Xun Zi
The soul never thinks without a picture. View quote
Aristotle
Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered. Dr. Joseph Murphy. (Joseph Murphy)
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
... if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken. View quote
Bruce Schneier
It's like anything in life, visualizing the old man you're going to become: As long as you have a clear picture of that - the life you want to lead - eventually you'll probably get there. View quote
Heath Ledger
Remember that a picture, before being a battle horse, a female nude or some sort of anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order. View quote
Maurice Denis
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. View quote
Henri Matisse
A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures. View quote
Alan Perlis
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act. (Carroll Quigley)
There will... be natural propriety in using an eastern light for bedrooms and libraries, a western light in winter for baths and winter apartments, and a northern light for picture galleries and other places in which a steady light is needed; for that quarter of the sky grows neither light nor dark with the course of the sun, but remains steady and unshifting all day long. View quote
Vitruvius
Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture. View quote
Cecil B. DeMille
I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture. View quote
Zack Snyder
I mean it's weird because the thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It's my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you're hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking. View quote
Naomi Watts