Pictures Quotes

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
― Marc Riboud

“Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.”
― Anne Sexton

“When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

“He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth

“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.”
― Héloïse d'Argenteuil, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

“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

“The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.”
― Salvador Dalí

“Why say then Buddha never carried gun?
he didn't play piano,
we do not know of him
making pictures either.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Hello, Bradley,' said Mom. She'd regained her composure after my outburst, and now raised her camera. 'Stand close.'
'No, Mom,' I said. 'No pictures.'
'But you're friend's here now,' she said, waving us together. 'Smile!'
'I don't need a picture with-' the flash snapped '-another guy. That's great, Mom, thank you. Send that one to Dad and tell him we're going steady.”
― Dan Wells, I Don't Want to Kill You

“Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.”
― Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters

“Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into adults. That's what happened to me. Once upon a time, I was a boy named Hugo Cabret, and I desperately believed that a broken automaton would save my life. Now that my cocoon has fallen away and I have emerged as a magician named Professor Alcofrisbas, I can look back and see that I was right. The automaton my father discovered did save me. But now I have built a new automaton. I spent countless hours designing it. I made every gear myself, carefully cut every brass disk, and fashioned every bt of machinery with my own hands. When you wind it up, it can do something I'm sure no other automaton in the world can do. It can tel you the incredible story of Georges Melies, his wife, their goddaughter, and a beloved clock maker whose son grew up to be a magician. The complicated machinery inside my automaton can produce one-hundred and fifty-eight different pictures, and it can wrote, letter, by letter, an entire book, twenty-six thousand one hundred and fifty-nine words. These words.

THE END”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“If tomorrow will be the end of the world, I will spend my today by looking at the pictures of my past!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures.”
― Erica Goros

“If a picture paints a thousand words, then a let a picture inspire a thousand words.”
― Nicholas Boyd Crutchley

“I could have been killed, and their response is to film me?...In that moment, the myth that every time your picture is taken, a part of your soul is stolen strikes me as a certain truth, because I feel my spirit being sucked out of me, into hundreds of all-seeing lenses that simply want to capture my fear, my anger, my performance.”
― Jeanne Ryan, Nerve

“[The unconscious has] been on its own for a long time. Of course it has no access to the world except through your own sensorium. Otherwise it would just labor in the dark. Like your liver. For historical reasons it's loath to speak to you. It prefers drama, metaphor, pictures. But it understands you very well. And it has no other cause save yours.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“Can you see the pictures before you on how to intervene on behalf of the oppressed? Are you thinking of what to do to the disenfranchised of your society? Do you notice the abused of your society? Can you see the afflicted that are crying for that justice every day? What of those who are been maltreated on daily basis, do you think they need that justice? Did you see any of those who are downtrodden, would that justice help them? Anyone oppressed and suppressed around you, can you serve them justice?”
― Sunday Adelaja

“A picture will leave me unmoved if I don't take time with it, but if I stop, and let myself get a little lost, there's no telling what might happen”
― James Elkins, Pictures and Tears

“I’m making tiny pictures,
on a canvas that is bigger than anyone 
can ever imagine.
My tiny pictures seem to get lost in the divine, 
chaotic masterpiece,
but still, the masterpiece wouldn’t be whole
without me and my tiny pictures.”
― Nanne Nyander, The Way Back Home: Poems

“The pictures do not tell what one is going through.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Pictures picture the level of character and mirror the quality of a mindset.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Maybe if she would have written things down in a notebook; details smaller than her life. Maybe if she would have turned them into a song. Maybe if she had a picture. These are the ways to remember things that your mind doesn't on its own commit. However it chooses what it does to commit. However.”
― Ani Baker, Handsome Vanilla

“The mental Images were liquifying So I could no longer separate what I was recalling from the past from what I'd seen in detailed photos that afternoon. Like life. I've long suspected that many of my memories from childhood Are actually drawn from old pictures, That they are composed of snapshots, A mosaic of celluloids Images reworked into a remembered reality. Kodak cast backwards. Maybe it's better to recall The pass that way. We rarely take pictures of sad occasions.”
― Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead

“The mental images were liquifying so I could no longer separate what I was recalling from the past from what I'd seen in detailed photos that afternoon. Like life. I've long suspected that many of my memories from childhood are actually drawn from old pictures, That they are composed of snapshots, A mosaic of celluloids Images reworked into a remembered reality. Kodak cast backwards. Maybe it's better to recall the past that way. We rarely take pictures of sad occasions.”
― Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead

“pictures are like wine. They have an aging period, a suitable way in which it is nice to be presented...
Снимките са като виното. Имат период на зреене и подходящ начин , по който би било добре да бъдат представени...”
― Петър Кръстев Petur Krustev

“I didn’t know whether these pictures would end up in history books or be used against me in a court hearing, but they would testify to something.”
― Ethan Chatagnier, Singer Distance

“Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you.”
― Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

“In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they will be well aware that they can no longer distinguish between a genuine image and one that has been manipulated. Even if news photographers and editors resist the temptations of electronic manipulation, as they are likely to do, the credibility of all reproduced images will be diminished by a climate of reduced expectations. In short, photographs will not seem as real as they once did.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves