Picture Quotes

Tyrone, I think they're taking to festivals. I don't know which festivals it will be at. It's like a buddy picture. It's a couple of guys driving across the country and they get to a small town and they hit a guy. The guy turns out to be a drug smuggler.

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.

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

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.

As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The public doesn't want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

I don't know really. I've always been interested in the small picture instead of the big one, and I've always been interested in relationship pictures.

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.

It's nice to walk into a club and see your picture. Then you know you've done something good.