Picture Quotes

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.

The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

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.

A picture is a poem without words.

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

I hate having my picture taken.

I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.

Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.

We'd rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn't.

If you see the picture when things get exciting, he chews faster. When he really gets shocked, everything stops, including the chewing. So I worked it in for me.

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

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

I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.

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.

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.

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

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.