Picture Quotes

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

Why should I have my picture taken when I can get paid for it?

I'm looking to see what the bigger picture is.

My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever.

I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

We have to draw the line somewhere. I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.

I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.

Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.

In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part.

When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I've done is 'Zodiac,' and that didn't perform that well.

If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

I think The Big Picture was such a huge shift from my second record.

And they talk about their bona fide doctors. They have a list of doctors that signed affidavits from looking at a picture of Terry. That's where they get their information from, by looking at a picture.

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.