Picture Quotes

When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.

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

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.

We have an integrated picture of the threat from outside and from within that is provided not only to our foreign ministers but also to our justice and interior ministers.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

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

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.

A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.

I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.

I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.

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.

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

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.