Picture Quotes

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.

I feel like the quality of privacy and respect of people's personal space has been completely disintegrated. You can ask to take the picture. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture.

Its not really about the movie business, it's about staying in the picture.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed.

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

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

I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.

I didn't set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way. But its been going on for me for 16 years now and its wonderful for an actor to work consistently. There seems to be an insatiable audience for this type of film.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.

I was very pleased you know, and I was afraid that I might stick out, but I didn't. My happiest thing about that picture is that I proved that American actors can speak as well and also fit in with an ensemble like that.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.

But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture.

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.