#pictures

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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Also the pictures themselves give a visual to the audience tuning in, that makes them a very important part of law enforcement, or pulling families together. ↗

— Robert Stack

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I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie. ↗

— Michael Madsen

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I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

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The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

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As a kid, during the school year, my head was often buried in a textbook or Judy Blume book; the words and pictures were the perfect, barrier-free environment for me. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

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It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme. ↗

— Mike McCready

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