#picture

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

#photography #photos #pictures #youth #youth

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

#pictures #war #photography

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#copies #few #gallery #many #originals

Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it? ↗

— Robert Buettner

#conformity #grand-picture #human-behavior #human-superiority #humankind

In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them. ↗

— Michael Behe

#accurate #anatomy #astounded #century #deliver

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else. ↗

— James Stewart

#else #go #got #had #i

My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#awards #even #first #friend #grammys

At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#i #myself #pictures #rather #realm

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#consumed #first #i #moment #picture

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#event #first #major #picture #premiere