Quotes of: Picturing Keyword

I have the picture in my mind of how emotional I will feel if I win again.

Yani Tseng

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.

James L. Brooks

I work very quickly. I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two.

William Eggleston

At this point in history, our society tends to elevate and reward the specialist...This concentrated focus has brought some benefits...It may also be a modern malady. Specialization, when taken too far and allowed to define who and what we are, becom...

It's a Long Road to a Tomato: Tales of an Organic Farmer Who Quit the Big City for the (Not So) Simple Life

People say that America has no religion, but it's the opposite: America has every religion, all the old ones, and produces more new ones than anywhere else on earth. America;'s religious life is like the photo mosaic in which a thousand little images...

Journey to the End of Islam

No respect for beauty - that was characteristic of today's society. The work of the great masters were at most employed as ironic references or in advertising. Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam " where you see a pair of jeans in place of the spark...

Let the Right One In

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. They affect us just as vulgarity affe...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

[first lines] Radio announcer: President Truman'll be here tomorrow, so all you folks in Dallas turn out, chuh hear? This is Cowboy Rhythms on KTRN, Wichita Falls, here's Hank Williams' big hit tune, "Cold Cold Heart". Sam the Lion: You ain't ever go...

The Last Picture Show

Franklin: Hey man, you ever go in that slaughter room or whatever they call it? The place where they shoot cattle in the head with that big air gun? Hitchhiker: Oh, that gun's no good. Franklin: I was in there once with my uncle. Hitchhiker: The old ...

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.

Ever My Merlin

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.

Jerry Saltz

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

1984

The picture is grainy. But that’s to be expected when photographing bread.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

If you wanted a peek at my dick I would have sent pictures," Levi growled.

Shattered Duty

She became a frame for the picture that was her son and daughter.

The School of Essential Ingredients

Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem.

Notes from the Cafe

Great peace is found in little busy-ness. Chaucer

The Quiet Eye: A Way of Looking at Pictures

My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!

Mark Haddon

And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

Norman Jewison

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

Ron Fournier