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Pierre Bonnard photo
Yuval Noah Harari photo
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Teal Swan photo
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo
Elmer Davis photo

“The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people’s minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize that they are being propagandized.”

Elmer Davis (1890–1958) American politician

As quoted in Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies by Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) p. 64.

Richard Wagner photo

“Are you afraid of a song, of a picture?”

Richard Wagner (1813–1883) German composer, conductor

Senta, to Erik
Quotes from his operas, Der fliegende Holländer
Original: (de) "Fürchtest du ein Lied, ein Bild?"

Henry Ford photo
Jonathan Bailey photo
Kanye West photo
Ralph Waldo Emerson photo
Sophie Kinsella photo
Jenny Han photo
Brandon Sanderson photo
Doris Lessing photo
Alfred Hitchcock photo

“Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination.”

Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books

Source: Caldecott and Co.: Notes on Books and Pictures

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Jodi Picoult photo

“Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic. What’s the point?”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Leaving Time

Jonathan Safran Foer photo
Jack Kerouac photo
Kim Harrison photo
Thomas Kinkade photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”

Diane Arbus (1923–1971) American photographer and author

Source: Estrin, James, Diane Arbus, 1923-1971, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlooked-diane-arbus.html, 6 November 2018, The New York Times, 8 March 2018]


Diane Arbus: Revelations. New York: Random House, 2003. ISBN 0-375-50620-9.


Ault, Alicia, A Window into the World of Diane Arbus: Photographs from the portfolio, "A box of 10," reveal photographer's secrets, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/window-world-diane-arbus-180968861/, 13 November 2018, Smithsonian, 24 April 2018

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Fulton J. Sheen photo

“Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

Source: Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

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John C. Maxwell photo

“A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Source: Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions that Will Help You See It and Seize It

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“Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.”

The She-Ancient, in Pt. V
Source: 1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Context: Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul. But we who are older use neither glass mirrors nor works of art. We have a direct sense of life. When you gain that you will put aside your mirrors and statues, your toys and your dolls.

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Eric Ripert photo
Patti Smith photo
Dave Eggers photo
Douglas Adams photo
Norman Vincent Peale photo
Napoleon Hill photo
Jennifer Weiner photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo
Donna Tartt photo

“I tried to picture a female version of Jim and got Jim in a dress instead. The image was disturbing.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Rises

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Patrick Rothfuss photo
Stephen Chbosky photo
Aphra Behn photo
Francis Bacon photo
Sophie Kinsella photo
Samuel Butler photo

“Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”

Source: The Way of All Flesh (1903), Ch. 14
Context: Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.

Sarah Dessen photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Alfred Hitchcock photo
Algernon Blackwood photo
William Goldman photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Rick Riordan photo
Nicole Krauss photo
Jane Austen photo

“Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked;”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Letter to Fanny Knight (1816-03-23) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Context: He and I should not in the least agree, of course, in our ideas of novels and heroines. Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked; but there is some very good sense in what he says, and I particularly respect him for wishing to think well of all young ladies; it shows an amiable and a delicate mind. And he deserves better treatment than to be obliged to read any more of my works.

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Abbie Hoffman photo

“Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a
commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.”

Introduction, p. v.
Source: Steal This Book (1971)
Context: Your body is just one in a mass of cuddly humanity. Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. The duty of a revolutionary is to make love and that means staying alive and free. That doesn't allow for cop-outs. Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.

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“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

This is only a slightly misquoted version of "Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them", written by Frank Lloyd Wright in the magazine Architectural Record in March 1908.
Misattributed

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Brandon Sanderson photo
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Walter Benjamin photo

“No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.”

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)

Source: Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

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“There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

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