#picture

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#appear #center #children #complete #embraces

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#considered #day #destroy #every #every day

I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea. ↗

— Milton Avery

#aroused #capture #colors #construct #emotion

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. ↗

— Marc Riboud

#life #photo #photograph #photography #photos

I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, "Well somebody has to be in them," so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise. ↗

— Annette Bening

#actress #around #been #began #college

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny. ↗

— Georges Braque

#been #destiny #incorporated #new #object

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. ↗

— Robert McAfee Brown

#church #content #culture #house #live

I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence. ↗

— Lacey Chabert

#fence #flowers #i #i see #instance

I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#actual #afforded #always #beloved #careful

I remember traveling around in Arkansas with Senator Robinson, and I told him what this little trick was. He felt very much part of it and had me take pictures of people unbeknownst to them. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#around #felt #had #him #i