Pictures Quotes

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

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.

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.

Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.

At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.

I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck.

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.

I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

I remember traveling around in Arkansas with Senator Robinson, and I told him what this little trick was. He felt very much part of it and had me take pictures of people unbeknownst to them.

As a kid, during the school year, my head was often buried in a textbook or Judy Blume book; the words and pictures were the perfect, barrier-free environment for me.

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.

It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then.

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!

When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.