Picture Quotes

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.

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

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

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.

I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.

You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.

In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.

I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.

When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.

MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.