Quotes about picture
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“One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.”

Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) French painter and printmaker

“Full Asian men are disgustingly ugly and white girls would never go for you. You’re just butthurt that you were born as an asian piece of shit, so you lash out by linking these fake pictures. You even admit that you wish you were half white. You’ll never be half-white and you’ll never fulfill your dream of marrying a white woman. I suggest you jump off a bridge.”

Elliot Rodger (1991–2014) American spree killer

As quoted in Josh Glasstetter, "Elliot Rodger, Isla Vista Shooting Suspect, Posted Racist Messages on Misogynistic Website", Hatewatch (May 24, 2014)
Bodybuilding.com, PUAhate and ForeverAlone posts

Girl, Dreams, Men

“In such a world, the last thing a teacher needs to give her pupils is more information. They already have far too much of it. Instead, people need the ability to make sense of information, to tell the difference between what is important and what is unimportant, and above all to combine many bits of information into a broad picture of the world.”

Yuval Noah Harari book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

People, Teachers, Sense, World

“Premachnad was always man of the people, a man of the soil. He spoke for country’s poor, not just the poor of his native state. With his powerful pen, he painted picture after picture of rural India, its largely static societt, its caste clashes as well its communal harmony, its poverty and its exploitation, as well as richness of character of so many of its people.”

Premchand (1880–1936) Hindi writer

In page 10
THE PREMCHAND READER Selected Stories 1

Country, Painting, People, Communication

“Mankind undervalues VISUALIZATION, because we have been lead to believe that thoughts are the cast off abstractions of the brain. But visualization is source's attribute of creation which is acting through the mind of mankind. As extensions of source, whenever we visualize, we bring forth the essence of what we visualize into visible, tangible, physical experience. No form ever came into existence without someone consciously holding a picture of that form first in his or her thoughts.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“For God does not need a picture, nor any physical attributes that you may imagine inside your limited mind.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

God, Imagination

“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.

People, Way, Idea

“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?"

“Jews have always controlled the business (...). The motion picture influence of the United States and Canada (...) is exclusively under the control, moral and financial, of the Jewish manipulators of the public mind.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

Source: The Dearborn Independent, February 1921

Business

“It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

“When you are not
with me…
i feel like a Frame without a Picture.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Feeling

“Of course I thought that in order to be happy I needed to be straight. I reached a point where I thought, Fuck this, I'd much prefer to hold my boyfriend's hand in public or be able to put my own face picture on Tinder and not be so concerned about that than getting a part.”

Jonathan Bailey (1988) British actor

"Jonathan Bailey: Jonathan Bailey Is Giving Us the Vapors" in GQ https://www.gq.com/story/gq-hype-jonathan-bailey (9 March 2022)

Happiness, Parting

“I know I got a bad reputation
'Walk around, always mad' reputation
'Leave a pretty girl sad' reputation
Start a Fight Club, Brad reputation Close your eyes and let the word paint a thousand pictures
One good girl is worth a thousand bitches
Bound.”

Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter

Bound 2
Lyrics, Yeezus (2013)

Painting, Girl, Bitch, Sadness

“" I first picture the ending part, before the starting point. " -Engr. Abah Sule”

Engr.Abah Sule

Parting

“I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

Love, Reality, Reading

“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Source: Nature and Selected Essays

Beauty

“sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!”

Sophie Kinsella book The Undomestic Goddess

Source: The Undomestic Goddess

Life

“When I used to picture forever, it was always with the same boy. In my dreams, my future was set. A sure thing. This isn’t the way I’d pictured it. … The future is unclear. But it’s still mine.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Dreams, Way, Boy, Future

“We'll never have a true picture of reality; it just doesn't exist. But I'm real, and you're real, and those fiery balls of gas up there are real, and right now that's all I need to know.”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Source: Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd

Reality

“Shallan, weren't you supposed to be reading?”
“I… had trouble concentrating.”
“So you came up on deck,” Jasnah said, “to sketch pictures of young men working without their shirts on. You expected this toyour concentration?”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

Men, Reading

“It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.”

Doris Lessing book The Grass Is Singing

The Grass Is Singing, ch. 2 (1950)

Truth, Personality

“The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.”

Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker

“A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

“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

Imagination

“He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Hound of the Baskervilles

Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Laughter

“Life is a million different dots making one gigantic picture. And maybe the big picture is nice, maybe it's amazing, but if you're standing with your face pressed up against a bunch of black dots, it's really hard to tell.”

Rebecca Stead book Liar & Spy

Source: Liar & Spy

Life

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

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Leaving Time

“I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

People, Beauty

“I hate when I'm an idiot and I don't know it. I like to be aware of my idiocy, to really revel in it, take pictures.”

Catherine Clark (1976) Canadian journalist

Hate

“don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Source: Dr Sax

Thinking

“I'd watch your mouth", he said, tilting his head as he looked at my ID."The last lunker who laughed at her picture spent the night in the emergency room with a drink umbrella jammed up his nose".”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Drink, Night

“Simon didn’t think Meg really wanted to know how to eviscerate a rabbit. He could be wrong about that, but he just couldn’t picture Meg pouncing on a bunny and ripping it open with her teeth.
Maybe if he tried harder to picture it?”

Anne Bishop book Written in Red

Source: Written in Red

Thinking

“Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.”

Thomas Kinkade (1958–2012) American painter of popular realistic, bucolic, and idyllic subjects

Life, Home, Kiss, Painting

“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3

Forgetting

“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

Secret

“It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.”

Darren Shan book The Lake of Souls

Source: The Lake of Souls

World, Painting, Perfection

“I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.”

Gloria Whelan book Listening for Lions

Source: Listening for Lions

Books, World, Change, Painting

“Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

Art, Heart

“… for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: Finding Noel

Life, Beauty, Learning, Chance

“You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your big dream regardless of what anyone says. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture and even you can't see it all.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Dreams, Courage, Personality

“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

Thinking

“Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Memory

“Why all these paintings of you? Because I'm an artist, Emma. These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Heart, Painting

“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

Dreams, Personality

“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.”

George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah

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.

Dreams, Art, Soul

“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

Books

“I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words.”

Eric Ripert (1965) French chef

Education, Beauty, Dreams, Imagination

“He took twelve pictures that day.
Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. "This one has the magic," he said.
When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“You see pictures of Buddha and he’s sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but not powerless. But leave it to Christians to have a dead and bloody man nailed to a cross.”

Dave Eggers book Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

Source: Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

God, Peace, Dead

“It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?”

Douglas Adams book So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Children, Animals

“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.”

Norman Vincent Peale book The Power of Positive Thinking

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking

Imagination

“Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

“Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.”

Jennifer Weiner book Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

Women, Summer, Baby, Housing

“If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

Love, Way, Personality

“I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.”

Iris Murdoch book A Severed Head

Source: A Severed Head

Feeling

“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

Life, Thinking

“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

“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Hate, War, World

“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating… but there are other ways to understanding.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Way, Understanding, Drawing

“Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

People

“A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.”

Aphra Behn book Oroonoko

Source: Oroonoko

Life, World, Way, Soul

“A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”

Francis Bacon book Essays

Of Friendship
Essays (1625)

Love

“Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Undomestic Goddess

Source: The Undomestic Goddess

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

Samuel Butler book The Way of All Flesh

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.

Back To Work, Music, Literature

“Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.”

Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections

Source: The Corrections

“An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in a single image. I t just feels that way.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Way, Feeling, Change, Time

“No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Life, Personality

“Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth – yourself.”

Rhonda Byrne book The Secret

Source: The Secret

Birth

“I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.”

Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker

Books, Reading

“No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least
inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the
walls of memory.”

Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951) English short story writer and novelist

Source: A Prisoner in Fairyland

Memory

“If a couple has their picture taken at a wedding or other social gathering, and the woman looks hot, her guy could be blinking, chewing, or even mid-sneeze, and she’ll still display it on her desk at work.”

Brian P. Cleary (1959) American writer

Guy, Wedding

“When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Truth, Books, Time, Reading

“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

People, Change

“Picture this," said Magnus. "Me with a little monkey friend. I could teach him tricks. I could dress him in a cunning jacket. He could look just like me! But more monkey-shaped.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: What Really Happened in Peru

“Mom?" Mother turned to Grandmother.
"What?"
"She's going to lunch with her kidnapper!"
"Take a picture for me," Grandma said.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

Moms, Grandma

“The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the details. That's how we rebel against destiny, how we make our mark. What will you choose to do?”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

Fate, Change

“If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.”

Nicole Krauss (1974) American novelist

Cute, Life, Way

“Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.”

Irving Stone book Lust for Life

Source: Lust for Life

Life, Books, Art

“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.

Perfection

“When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I’m in Outside but it turns out lots of it isn’t real at all.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“even if we can’t change the big picture, our choices can alter the details. That’s how we rebel against destiny”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

Change

“People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

People

“I don't trust words. I trust pictures.”

Gilles Peress (1946) French photojournalist

“I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.”

Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer

People, Thinking, Learning

“All of the life-changing awesome
words and pictures and ideas
inside your library are useless
without just one word outside
your library: Open.”

Mo Willems (1968) American children's illustrator and writer

Life, Idea, Change

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

Abbie Hoffman book Steal This Book

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.

Drink

“Rose pictured him standing at the boundary of the Ogletree house in that enormous fur cape, with a giant sword sticking over his shoulder, roaring at the top of his lungs and then being upset that nobody came out, and laughed.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: On the Edge

Housing

“Now that I'm in your mind, want to see some naked mental pictures of Jace?”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.”

Salman Rushdie The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999)

People

“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