#picture

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#company #conversation #decide #development #good

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#make #paint #pictures #sense #should

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around. ↗

— Mary Pickford

#been #grown #had #instead #logical

I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#commercial #directing #doing #enjoy #i

I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#dozen #editor #editors #essay #geographic

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #colours #oscar-wilde #painting #the-picture-of-dorian-gray

We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#beach #crabs #i #lot #pictures

This camera works like photosynthesis. It is as if you were Xeroxing your own face. The pictures have such physicality: their surface is like fine leather, stained from chemicals. Each one has a body and is more than an image. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#camera #chemicals #each #face #fine

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy. ↗

— Norma Shearer

#being #ecstasy #motion #motion picture #picture

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear. ↗

— Cindy Sherman

#disappear #feel #i #i feel #look