Picture Quotes

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.

Picture you upon my knee, just tea two and two for tea.

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The public doesn't want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

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.

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.

It's nice to walk into a club and see your picture. Then you know you've done something good.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.

I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.