#picture

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession. ↗

— William Hogarth

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The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra. ↗

— Roland Joffe

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The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics. ↗

— Richard Rorty

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A picture is a poem without words. ↗

— Horace

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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

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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

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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

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

— Marc Riboud

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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

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

— Georges Braque

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