Picture Quotes

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.

You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.

In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.

I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

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.

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.