Wordgrove Post & Review

Building out a quest and hosting a writing contest in There.com has taken weeks away from the Post & Review; this without apology.

A wandering life having made it difficult to establish business credentials, plus an established feeble-mindedness in matters of money and finance, means that the Post & Review will continue as a free platform.
~Ed Note

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THIS EDITION: picture

Quoted In The Grove:

I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.
~Gilles Peress

Pictures can be pretty deceptive.
~Gayle Forman

Don’t beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don’t always have to know who you are. You don’t have to have the big picture, or know where you’re heading. Sometimes, it’s enough just to know what you’re going to do next.
~Sophie Kinsella

EndQuote:
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.
~Elliott Erwitt

If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.
~Robert Capa (photojournalist)

What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.
~Rene Burri (Swiss photog)

AfterWords:
That’s the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
~David Byrne

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When I’m 19, I’ll still be living with my mom, but I’m going to be doing music and acting. I can picture it really vividly.
~JoJo Siwa

There’s a time in your life where you’re not quite sure where you are. You think everything’s perfect, but it’s not perfect… Then one day you wake up and you can’t quite picture yourself in the situation you’re in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing anything in life, you can do it.
~Tom DeLonge

Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.
~Cyndi Lauper

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When your head’s full of pictures, they have to come out.
~Bill Maynard

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
~William Wordsworth

Next to bad manuscripts, pictures can be made the greatest bores.
~Frederick Douglass

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Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture ‒ none of it under the right people.
~James Agee

It’s easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
~George Bernard Shaw

We take safety very, very seriously on every film I make, and that’s why I’ve never had a serious accident or anybody killed when I make a picture.
~Michael Mann

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The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that’s the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.
‒PJ Harvey

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.
~Garry Winogrand

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When you’re on one of the Caribbean islands, sometimes it’s hard to picture how they fit in with the rest, but when you see them all joined together like a necklace from space, you see the natural geographic connectedness of them all.
~Chris Hadfield

I’m a million miles away, and at the same time I’m right here in your picture frame.
~Jimi Hendrix

Today I finally overcame tryin’ to fit the world inside a picture frame.
~John Mayer

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Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it’s not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people’s eyes.
~John Ford

For me the most important thing to do in a selfie is to have an opinion and to say something with the picture. Don’t just take a picture of yourself like, ‘Here I am.’ It’s what are you thinking? Are you happy? Are you angry? Do you like it? Do you not like it? Think an emotion and apply it to your eyes.
~Nigel Barker

For a selfie, it’s not about the pose, it’s about you. There’s a reason why you look great in the picture or you look great in real life, because someone has caught the essence of who you are, and a pose is not you.
~Nigel Barker

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Everything happens for a reason, everything is part of a puzzle that, even at the time, if we don’t understand the bigger picture, everything has significant role in what’s to come in the future.
~Jon Connor

The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.
~Hoda Kotb

The big picture doesn’t just come from distance; it also comes from time.
~Simon Sinek

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Real life … it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.
~Bentley Little

It’s never something huge that changes the everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you’re busy focusing on the big picture.
~Sarah Dessen

I would hope the pages would be blank, and every time you flipped the page, a beautiful picture would form. The universe knows where I’m going, and I’m just gonna let it do what it does.
~Ahmad Balshe

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If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.
~John C Maxwell

The thing about seeing the big picture and being self-aware is knowing that it’s not about you. It’s about the big picture. It’s not about you. It’s not. This is not about you.
~Jimmy Iovine (entrepeneur)

Those who profit from adversity possess a spirit of humility and are therefore inclined to make the necessary changes needed to learn from their mistakes, failures, and losses. … When we are focused too much on ourselves, we lose perspective. Humility allows us to regain perspective and see the big picture.
~John C Maxwell

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I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero.
~Rita Hayworth

I just don’t understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.
~Anthony Mackie

I’m pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.
~Annie Leibovitz

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To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
~Robert Mapplethorpe

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
~Charles Dudley Warner

Actually I think Art lies in both directions ‒ the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
~Peter Hammill

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I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element separately and never looked to see that they never did fit together properly
~Erin Morgenstern

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.
~Leroy Hood

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details.
~Chuck Palahniuk

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There’s something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.
~Philip Seymour Hoffman

Details create the big picture.
~Sanford I Weill

When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.
~Georges St-Pierre

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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

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.
~Lisa See

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.
~Sri Chinmoy

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A visionry is someone who sees the future with both insight and foresight: Insight into the deeper causes and meaning of events in the world, and foresight, or an intuitive grasp of the big picture, such as the trajectory of politics and popular culture.
~Corinne McLaughlin

Vision ‒ It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
~Robert Collier

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.
~Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.
~Max Beckmann

‘We live’ writes Pursewarden somewhere ‘lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.’
~Lawrence Durrell

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space ‒ abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.
~Benjamin Whorf

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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

You definitely have to think of the perception of things before you actually do certain things. It may not seem like it’s a big deal to you yourself, but there’s a bigger picture.
~Ezekiel Elliott

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they’re not looking for.
~Tibor Kalman

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A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls… saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?
~Stephen Hawking

I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures!
~Mark Rothko (painter)

There is no unique picture of reality.
~Stephen Hawking

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I’d like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
~Federico Fellini

We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place.
~Yehuda Berg

Life is too short to talk about the small, unimportant things when you catch the bigger picture.
~Mya

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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
~Vanna Bonta

It’s hard to see the whole picture when you are in the frame.
~Les Brown

Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. “The only people who can see the whole picture,” he murmured, “are the ones who step out of the frame.”
~Salman Rushdie

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Posted From The Grove

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
~Lech Walesa

Our revolution is like Wikipedia, okay? Everyone is contributing content, [but] you don’t know the names of the people contributing the content. This is exactly what happened. Revolution 2.0 in Egypt was exactly the same. Everyone is contributing small pieces, bits and pieces. We drew this whole picture of a revolution. And no one is the hero in that picture.
~Wael Ghonim

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
~Mao Zedong

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
~Bernard Law Montgomery

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The perspective that law enforcement is presenting seems to be a very narrow one that’s focused very, very heavily on investigations of past crimes rather than on preventing future crimes. It’s very important for policymakers to take that broader view because they’re the ones who are trusted to look at the big picture.
~Matt Blaze

Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it’s not an individual right or that it’s too much of a safety hazard don’t see the danger of the big picture. They’re courting disaster by encouraging others to use this same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don’t like.
~Alan Dershowitz

The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it’s privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In Econ 101, they teach that the big-picture fight over national priorities is guns versus butter. Now it’s butter versus margarine—guns get a pass. Overall, we’re weaker for it, and at enormous cost.
~Rachel Maddow

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I think the bigger picture message they’re getting is how the health care system in this country is structured really makes a difference in people’s lives.
~Vicky Rideout

Food justice must be incorporated into the city’s long term and big picture planning efforts.
~Michelle Wu (Boston)

Justice is merely incidental to law and order. Law and order is what covers the whole picture. Justice is part of it, but it can’t be separated as a single thing.
~J Edgar Hoover

Anger is a little thing. Hate is a little thing. Order is a little thing. Each of these little things has a major impact on the big picture. Right thinking, right action, and right response to the little things will help us conquer the big things, like injustice, inequality, poverty, and disorder. Until we are each able to conquer and master the little things in our lives, the big things will remain undone.
~Iyanla Vanzant

I always encourage people to start in their own personal universe, because sometimes we as parents start thinking about the big picture. How do I change what’s happening in my entire school? And how do I do it in my community? And then you get overwhelmed and it’s just like, “Forget it, I’ll just stay here in my kitchen and wait.” But, start small.
~Michelle Obama

If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now.
~Chan Khong

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Israel is very confusing because it seems to be a Goliath, and in some ways it is, when you look at the tanks versus the Palestinian boy. But deep down, when you look at the big map and the big picture and the big history, we are really a David. We are a David with some megalomaniac ideas who thinks he’s huge. But we’re not. At the end of the day, Jews as a people are an endangered species. One cannot overlook this dimension.
~Ari Shavit

The Khmer Rouge tried to delete everything. They tried to erase our past, our personality, our land, our sentiment. What we tried to do in ‘The Missing Picture‘ was to reconstruct our identity, to bring it back to the people through cinema.
~Rithy Panh

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The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.
~Tom Clancy

I spent my older teen years holding my tongue while my Hollywood coworkers gushed about big government, attacked anyone to the Right of raging socialism, and shunned me every time I posted a picture with a gun.
~Brett Cooper

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
~Robert Capa (photojournalist)

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A picture is a fact.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet’s metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
~William H Hunt

Ex-Sec Navy, Mr Hunt, perhaps explaining why doctoring a picture for security purposes should not call into question the source’s veracity in other areas.
~Ed Note

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
~Maxwell Maltz

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I’m not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.
~John Paul DeJoria

In a certain sense, this guy ‒ who is one of the most evil people in the book ‒ he’s not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he’s doing, he’s smart and he’s got the big picture in mind. He’s like the Godfather.
~Kevin J Anderson

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The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
~Alfred Hitchcock

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
~Sam Goldwyn

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What does ‘politicizing intelligence’ mean? Using intel, or more often, partial intel, to produce an effect in line with White House policies rather than giving a full picture of a particular situation.
~Elliott Abrams

I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi ‒ the least omission may distort the whole picture.
~Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with minimal effect on civilians. Technical documents give a different picture.
~Noam Chomsky

The easiest way to propagandize people is to let a propaganda theme go in through an entertainment picture when people do not realize they are being propagandized.
~Elmer Davis

Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be.
~Thor Heyerdahl

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
~Aeschylus

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One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
~Ronald Reagan

I don’t take sides, I take pictures.
~Nick Nolte

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The picture of the free market is necessarily one of harmony and mutual benefit; the picture of State intervention is one of caste conflict, coercion, and exploitation.
~Murray Rothbard

Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don’t think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.
~Edward Felten

Instead of serving special interests, Congress should focus on the big picture. Globalization and technology have completely reshaped our economy in recent decades, and if we don’t respond, we’re putting the future of the middle class at risk.
~John Delaney

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To be a good citizen, it’s important to be able to put yourself in other people’s shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.
~Eli Pariser

Politicians are nauseating by definition… They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.
~Gerhard Richter

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People who have “their own issues” often don’t stand back and look at the big picture‒ they’re too busy orchestrating their own issues.
~Laura Schlessinger

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
~Xun Kuang

The capacity to see the big picture is perhaps the most important as an antidote to the variety of psychic woes brought forth by the remarkable prosperity and plentitude of our times. Many of us are crunched for time, deluged by information, and paralyzed by the weight of too many choices. The best prescription for these modern maladies may be to approach one’s own life in a contextual, big picture fashion ‒ to distinguish between what really matters and what merely annoys.
~Daniel H Pink

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Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.
~Lester R Brown

I’ve been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what’s going to happen with our country in the future.
~Jackie Mason

Good romantic suspense can never underestimate the audience, and the best political leaders know how to shape a compelling narrative that respects voters and paints a picture of what is to come.
~Stacey Abrams

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Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.
~Etel Adnan

We approached Athens from the north in early twilight, climbing a hill. When we reached its peak, we were dazzled to look down and see the Acropolis struck by one beam of the setting sun, as if posing for a picture.
~Donald Hall

In the end it’s the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia’s changed inexorably for good, for the better.
~Paul Keating

Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet.
~B W Powe

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.
~Pierre Loti

Even though you picture Russians as stoic, their language is really poetic.
~Rachel Riley

I’ve seen the world and I’ve seen the bigger picture.
~Gervonta Davis

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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and few copies.
~Alexis de Tocqueville

Nine years old, I became the victim of war. I didn’t like that picture at all. I felt like, why he took my picture, when I was agony, naked, so ugly? I wished that picture wasn’t taken.
~Phan Thi Kim Phuc

That little girl became me now. I have accepted it and I’m thankful that my picture worked for good.
~Phan Thi Kim Phuc

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.
~Thomas Babington Macaulay

I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.
~David Christian

The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you try to find that. I’m doing in the cinema what historians try to do in their own media.
~Oliver Stone

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The media loves to spend a lot of time talking about itself and do a lot of navel-gazing, which the general public isn’t quite that interested in… I think where the media has gotten itself in trouble is the sense that they’re much more interested in things like parsing words and getting into fights about little minutia, as opposed to stepping back and seeing what the big picture is.
~Amy Walter

We have a problem with several media taking only a part of the reality and not the whole picture. Some media in the world are more critical towards what’s happening than others. It depends on the journalist, it depends how much information they have about the case and which perspective they are asking you from. All of these things can play a role.
~Ahmed Akkari

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I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help ‒ no matter how little ‒ to make people aware of the human condition.
~Eve Arnold

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Sometimes people say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so if you look at my tattoos and you know what you’re reading, you can draw a lot from them.
~Montel Vontavious Porter

What makes ‘Pootie Tang‘ the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it’s a joke action film. It slides through enough African-American pop culture signifiers to raise laughs out of those who will appreciate the references; it revels in more cheese per square inch than a soul food diner.
~Elvis Mitchell Tyrone,

The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.
~Suzanne Fields

That’s the trouble with, I think, my ‒ the contemporary read of my work. So many people just simply say, “These are pretty pictures of black boys.” They’re not really thinking about, like, what the whole thing is.
~Kehinde Wiley

It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
~Al Sharpton

I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.
~Hattie McDaniel (Gone With The Wind / Oscar)

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~Woodruff Laputka: Picture Book (2:10) images, to a soft piano

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On Repeat:
Pictures of People From a Year That Was

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Learning to Air Walk ‒ if you can picture it

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Sidewalk Illusion Walks ‒ when the eyes lie

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Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you’re working at the big picture but don’t know the details.
~Henry Mintzberg

There’s a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, “The devil is in the details.” One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It’s only through familiarity with details ‒ the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing ‒ that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.
~Andy Grove (of Intel)

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Some people who are creative are not reliable and vice versa; some see big pictures while others see details, etc. All of them are important to have on well-orchestrated teams.
~Ray Dalio (hedge funds)

…[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small, discrete parts and assign each person to do only one of the many parts. In so doing, companies run the risk of taking away employees’ sense of the big picture, purpose, and sense of completion.
~Dan Ariely

If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you’re just not seeing the big picture.
~Dan Barber

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There’s simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is its the whole picture that counts.
~Jeremy Stoppelman

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A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may not be running the entire race. A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the “ninety-five yard dash.” That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the last five yards makes the first ninety-five pointless. In fact, serious runners thing of it as a 110 yard dash so that no one will best them in the last few yards. You’ve got to think beyond the whole.
~Max De Pree

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
~Norman Vincent Peale

An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.
~Vera Nazarian

When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect.
~Barbara Fredrickson

Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.
~Barbara Fredrickson

To see the big picture, get out of the dark valleys, climb to the sunny summits!
~Mehmet Murat Ildan

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Learn to see the big picture. Often times we get tunnel vision and lose sight of the big picture and what we’re really trying to accomplish.
~Robert Cheeke

When Bill Gates started Corbis we were told that he needed images to fill those digital picture frames in his home, and many found this plausible. But now it’s pretty clear that he’s set out to control the visual history of the twentieth century.
~Philip Jones Griffiths

We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.
~Joseph P Kennedy

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What’s important now are the characteristics of the brain’s right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.
~Daniel H Pink

Cognitive skills such as big-picture thinking and long-term vision were particularly important. But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ, and emotional intelligence as ingredients of excellent performance, emotional intelligence proved to be twice as important as the others for jobs at all levels.
~Daniel Goleman

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Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our players all fit together properly and complement each other, so that we don’t have a big piece, a little piece, an oblong piece, and a round piece. If personalities work against each other, as a team you’ll find yourselves spinning your wheels.
~Pat Summitt

Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.
~Margaret J Wheatley

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Don’t equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don’t let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you’d like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.
~Harvey Mackay

Sometimes you have to make decisions for the bigger picture.
~Gareth Southgate

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The hurdles have taught me that if you work really, really hard at perfecting the little things in your life, the big picture will come together.
~John Shaffer

You’re going to make mistakes. The key is to learn from them as fast as possible and make changes as soon as you can. That’s not always easy to do because ego and pride get in the way, but you have to put all that aside and look at the big picture.
~Tiger Woods

To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing; it’s about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It’s about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.
~Summer Sanders (swimming, Gold)

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Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture…what are your options and what is the best thing to do? In football, you are mostly reacting from a defensive point of view…but you always want to be counterattacking…a similarity with chess strategy. Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later.
~Barney Chavous

It’s much like playing jazz, flying. It’s multitasking in real time. You have a number of instruments that alone won’t tell you exactly what the airplane is doing but together give you a picture of everything that’s going on.
~Aaron Diehl

I always catch and release and don’t even eat trout. I think they are so majestic. I won’t eat a trout even in a restaurant. They are beautiful and so much fun, and they give me such joy to catch them that it is my pleasure to take a picture with them, give them a kiss, sign a laminated autographed picture and put it in their mouth.
~Henry Winkler

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I think I’ve always had the shots. But in the past, I’ve suffered too many mental lapses. Now, I’m starting to get away from that and my mental discipline and commitment to the game are much better. I think I’m really taking a good look at the big picture. That’s the difference between being around for the final or watching the final from my sofa at home.
~Pele

Ronaldo, the Brazilian one ‒ incredible player. I met him once. I was in Ibiza on holiday and quite by chance ran into him in a club. He’s the only man I’d go up to and ask for a picture. And I did.
~Peter Crouch

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I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn’t thinking about the big picture. I didn’t notice what they said on television, I wasn’t reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.
~Boris Becker

A champion is suppose to hate to lose, and it wasn’t like I was ever crazy about the idea. But I learned to deal with losing without having my spirit or confidence broken, which would help immensely over time, not just in the big picture but even in specific matches when I found myself in a jam. Fear of losing is a terrible thing.
~Pete Sampras

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Players should know that if you can’t make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture.
~Sue Wicks (WNBA)

I don’t really like all the attention, because it feels like everything is about winning and they don’t see the whole picture of my teammates and without my teammates, I don’t think we’d be here right now… I can always give all the attention to my teammates because they handle it well.
~Mo’ne Davis (Womens Professional Baseball League ‒ WPBL)

I am realistic, I see the bigger picture and I recognise who I am teammates with.
~George Russell (motor sports)

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Baseball is a game based on adversity. It’s a game that’s going to test you repeatedly. It’s going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.
~Theo Epstein

In this game, you have to think about making plays, you can’t worry about making mistakes. At times, a guy will get thrown out, but in the bigger scheme, the bases we’re going to take will far outweigh that occasional misread. And it depends on what you call a mistake. If the outfielder puts the ball right on the money, he’s out by a quarter-step and it’s a bang-bang play, that’s not a mistake. That’s baseball. If you’re out by four or five steps, it’s ugly, it’s a misread, but in the big picture, that aggressiveness is going to help us more than the occasional blunder will hurt.
~Mike Scioscia

Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don’t lose your momentum, and there’s one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper.
~Pete Rose

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
~Bob Uecker

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Although you do look at the big picture, if you’re dealing with the now, it can be kind of frustrating. You’re losing basketball games, things not going the way you want it to go or should go, but at the same time we’ve just got to stay with it. Just stay positive, just stay focused, as a team, as a unit, because the ship easily can sink early.
~Carmelo Anthony ‒ NBA

I do a lot of things that don’t show up on the box score. So if you want to just measure my performance or impact on the game by just my points or rebounds or three-point percentage, you’re not going to get the whole picture.
~Josh Hart ‒ NBA

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Ever since I lost the Women’s Championship to Askua, I feel like I’ve been targeted in a whole different way. People have tried to keep me down and keep me away from the title picture to make sure that I never get a chance again.
~Bayley ‒ WWE

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.
~Hulk Hogan ‒ WWE

The mind is the most important thing of the big picture and no one has a stronger mindset than amateur wrestlers.
~Joe Rogan

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It’s nice to walk into a club and see your picture. Then you know you’ve done something good.
~Fuzzy Zoeller ‒ PGA

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Sometimes you’ve got to be a little flexible. For the most part, it’s hard to get players to look at the big picture also. I understand that. They’re looking at their next start or their next at-bat.
~Terry Francona ‒ MLB

It’s hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.
~Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ‒ NBA

I think it’s really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition
~Shannon Miller ‒ gymnast

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I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.
~Lou Holtz

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Trust is always a factor. You’ve just got to look at the big picture, and you’ve got to look at the small picture ‒ the small picture in the sense that you’ve got to make every scene work and you’ve got to deal with what people are presenting you with, too.
~Willem Dafoe

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You know one of the things about going from modeling to acting is it’s so much more fulfilling. With modeling, you get your picture taken, which is great, good for you, you know? But in acting, you’re able to reach in and show a little bit more of yourself.
~Tom Welling

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.
~Gemma Chan

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People who work with me think I should cut my hair. They say casting directors are less likely to hire me with long hair ‒ that they don’t have imaginations and can’t picture me looking normal. People literally have conference calls about my head when I’m not around. I mean, obviously I would cut my hair for an amazing part.
~Rory Culkin

They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It’s not a fantasy picture. You’re dealing with something that’s supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist.
~Rick Yune (martial artist)

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I don’t believe in careers. I believe in work. I’m not interested in some ‘big picture that would be really good for me’.
~Debra Winger

I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.
~Kurt Russell

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I’ve had small parts in big pictures and big parts in small pictures.
~Candy Darling (Warhol star)

I’d much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.
~Rod Taylor

My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I’m looking at it as to see what the best character is, then it’s not really looking at the big picture.
~Frank Grillo

You know, my endeavour is to blend into the larger picture. That was one of the strengths of my acting in ‘Monsoon Wedding.’
~Shefali Shah

I love being able to be the artist of the whole picture, as opposed to just one of the brushes.
~Zachary Levi (actor)

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That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren’t many parts for lions.
~Bert Lahr

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again.
~Alan Ladd

I was groomed as a so-called sex symbol, a rival to Marilyn Monroe, and from then on, whenever my picture appeared in paper, it was ‘sex kitten,’ ‘sex symbol,’ ‘sex goddess,’ ‘sex pot.’ I’ve accepted it, and I’m flattered, but in some ways, it’s been a hindrance to me because I haven’t been able to be taken seriously as an actress.
~Mamie Van Doren

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I’m always nervous when I start a new picture.
~Lana Turner

It’s harder to get your second picture than it is to get your first one.
~John Knoll

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.
~George Lucas

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If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors.
~John Frankenheimer

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There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.
~Gene Tierney

When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they’d cut that in and add it.
~Fay Wray

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.
~Hedy Lamarr

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There are all sorts of reasons why I don’t do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I’ve given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It’s like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.
~Peter Cushing

I can picture the character in my head, and the voice just comes out.
~Jim Cummings

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I know I didn’t like that dress ’cause it didn’t fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren’t the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us.
~Jimmy Carl Black

There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That’s Sean Connery! I don’t know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
~F Murray Abraham (Finding Forrester)

It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I’m in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I’m doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.
~Kevin Kline

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Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn’t mean that I’ll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: ‘Isn’t that that Bening woman?’
~Annette Bening

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My first black-on-black picture was ‘The Portrait of an Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self.’ I started using it as an emblem of this undercurrent of wickedness, malevolence, and irony ‒ all of that.
~Kerry James Marshall (artIst)

Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century ‒ in literature, film and beyond.
~Carlos Ruiz Zafo

It’s a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there’s still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that’s not a tongue-in-cheek picture.
~John Carpenter

I didn’t set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way. But its been going on for me for 16 years now and its wonderful for an actor to work consistently. There seems to be an insatiable audience for this type of film.
~Peter Cushing

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Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.
~Mickey Spillane

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
~Walt Disney

…I want to continue to do that, keep making big pictures and make what I love. I’m really just making the films I want to see. There’s not a strategy.
~Brett Ratner

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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
~Mads Mikkelsen

But you can’t show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
~James Dean

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The most interesting letters I received about ‘The Name of the Rose‘ were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn’t understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
~Umberto Eco

When you’re making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.
~Michael Douglas

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To me, that’s when music was music. Every studio had a full symphonic orchestra and a whole bunch of singers they used on every picture. Every radio show had singers on it, and NBC and CBS had their own staff orchestras. Music was everything. And it was good music; it wasn’t based on three chords.
~Thurl Ravenscroft

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
~Ken Burns

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There’s evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
~Mark Rydell

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we’ve unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.
~Richard D Zanuck

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I’ve been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
~Joseph L Mankiewicz (1909-1993)

It’s always hard to break an independent picture from the pack.
~Gary Goetzman

A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.
~Peter Bart

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If you are great, ‘El Topo‘ is a great picture. If you are limited, ‘El Topo’ is limited.
~Alejandro Jodorowsky (filmmaker)

‘Santa Sangre‘ is the picture I love the best, myself, because ‘El Topo‘ and ‘The Holy Mountain‘ I made with my head, and ‘Santa Sangre‘ I made with my feelings, with my heart. It’s an emotional picture. And it’s more real for me, that picture.
~Alejandro Jodorowsky

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I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I’m working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
~Maggie Stie

‘Deadpool‘ took seven years to get to the motion picture screen, and I use that as my measurement. That tested me and my patience more than anything I could’ve imagined because the screenplay was so good.
~Rob Liefeld

I’m such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don’t want to make a picture.
~Howard Hawks

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Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It’s about the big picture.
~Ed Wood

My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality.
~Dieter Rams

Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You’re trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.
~Andy Andrews

I think that one of the things that I can do is I seem to have the ability to zoom in super tight for very small details, but then jump back for sort of that big picture perspective. And I think that ultimately, that’s one of my strengths, because you have ‒ every detail matters.
~Henry Selick (filmmaker)

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‘The Lion, [the Witch and the Wardrobe]’ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‘Let’s try to make a story about it.’
~C S Lewis

‘Birdman‘ is basically ‘All About Eve‘ ‒ the 1950 comedy about rehearsal rivalries in a Broadway show, and another Best Picture laureate ‒ reimagined as a Batman suicide mission. The movie couldn’t be actor-ier.
~Richard Corliss

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible.
~Robert Towne

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In film and television you have to be able to see the whole picture in a different way than you do on the stage because you shoot out of order and you’re working with technology.
~Renee O’Connor

Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.
~Gene Kelly

When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of ‘being there,’ any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.
~Gary Gygax

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We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they’re proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they’ll hang in their home and be proud of. And that’s what it’s all about.
~Bob Ross

Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.
~Ivor Novello

There’s certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it’s tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week.
~Jorge Garcia

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A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should seem to be waiting for the action to complete it; it should not hold definite significance in itself.
~G Wilson Knight

To me if there’s an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it’s because nothing stands out, it all works as a piece. And you feel that these actors are in this situation and the audience is not thrown by a pretty picture or by bad lighting.
~Roger Deakins

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I learned in my early years in the theater that I would never become the guy on top. I’ll never create a show; I don’t have a brain expansive enough to see the whole picture, in a way that would behoove anyone.
~Nick Offerman

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When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn’t pleasant. I always think: ‘Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?’ But I have to remember the bigger picture.
~Michel Gondry

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don’t know how to light it. And I realize it’s because I didn’t grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.
~Martin Scorsese

I think in every picture that I’ve ever made. Everything that I’ve done torments me. I really would like another chance except I’d be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
~Sam Raimi

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.
~Francis Ford Coppola

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it’s not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people’s eyes.
~John Ford

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
~Sam Raimi

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I’m one person and by the time I finish I’m another.
~Dario Argento (director)

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I think you can maintain two tracks. I think you have to. That’s what this kind of filmmaking is about. If you’re not aware of the limitations of what you’re up against… it’s like a general: you have to know your artillery and you have to know your infantry. You have to know what you have. You have to marshal your forces and use them well. It comes down to the personal and the intimate, but at the same time you have to have the big picture.
~Oliver Stone

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.
~Julia Leigh

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.
~Fritz Lang

I’ve always felt it’s the directors purview to say what; it’s the actor’s purview to say how. It’s not good for an actor to have the big picture in mind ‒ it bollocks you up. An actor’s purview is the tiny little… We measure our performance in seconds.
~William H Macy

As a writer you see the big picture and how you can tell as one character, how your storyline is going to meet up with all these other storylines. And as an actor you’re thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details.
~Richard Dormer

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More and more people are seeing the films on computers ‒ lousy sound, lousy picture ‒ and they think they’ve seen the film, but they really haven’t.
~David Lynch

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.
~Ridley Scott

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If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, ‘Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?’
~Stephen Daldry

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Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture… like Van Gogh… so who’s to say what’s good and bad?
~Frank Gehry (architect)

An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.
~Shane Black

I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is ‒ which I’m a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.
~Samuel R Delany

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‘Jaws‘ was the first A-list picture that was released like an exploitation picture. They made a lot of money with that picture because they could save a lot of money on advertising. Instead of having a full-page ad in ‘The New York Times‘ for one theater, they had it for 100 theaters.
~Peter Bogdanovich

Becket is something that’s definitely on the cards. We have to see where that fits in the schedule, because it’s a big picture and I have a lot of writing obligations at the moment. I’m wary of anything with a budget over a certain amount.
~William Monahan

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.
~Uwe Boll

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When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it’s all about that.
~Mary Ellen Mark

There’s this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven’t grossed a certain amount, then you’re not bankable. I know I’m not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking’s pretty low. The only studio picture I’ve done is ‘Zodiac,’ and that didn’t perform that well.
~Chloe Sevigny

Its not really about the movie business, it’s about staying in the picture.
~Robert Evans

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When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!
~David Twohy

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we’re not interested.
~Ian MacKaye

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The reality is that every movie is a new business. Nobody says, ‘Hey, let’s go down to the Pantages Theater, I hear a Warner Brothers picture is playing there.’ Or, ‘Let’s go to this theater, I hear the film came in on budget.’ It’d be ridiculous.
~Peter Guber

I figure if it’s turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it’s hard to really picture the DVD version when I’m in production.
~Jay Roach

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There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end. He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was. It was a fine compliment.
~Jackson Pollock

He sees more in my pictures than I ever painted!
~J M W Turner

We’d rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn’t.
~Gene Siskel

Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture… like Van Gogh… so who’s to say what’s good and bad?
~Frank Gehry (architect)

His pictures seem to resemble not pictures but a sample book of patterns of linoleum.
~Cyril Asquith (of Pablo Picasso’s linoleum cut prints)

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.
~Kurt Vonnegut

An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.
~Shane Black

I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is ‒ which I’m a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.
~Samuel R Delany

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~Omeleto Animation: The Bigger Picture (7:24) death pending has two sons

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~Omeleto Sci-Fi: The Ark (14:13) Picture it, knowing after not knowing

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~Omeleto: Love Machine (11:53) Picture it, inter-species dating

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We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can’t be limited by that. You can’t let somebody tell you, ‘Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.’
~Walter Mosley

It’s far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.
~Robert Richardson (cinematographer)

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You start blocking out things, and that’s a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you’re ‒ what you’re concentrating on.
~Sally Mann (photog)

A face in the picture would bother me, so I’d rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.
~Norman Rockwell

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Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.
~Philippe Halsman

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Good work is good work wherever it’s done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
~Parker Stevenson

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I maintain that if you’re a novelist and you go into an art museum, you’ll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you’re a better actor at the end of it.
~John Hawkes

Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw.
~Daniel H Pink (non-fiction)

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To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
~James Whistler

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
~Albrecht Durer

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I think ‘Lost Boy‘ is more of a metaphor for oneself. When I listen to that song, I don’t picture someone else. I kind of wrote it from a very honest place.
~Ruth B

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.
~Kurt Schwitters

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Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term‒selectivity.
~Berenice Abbott

You start blocking out things, and that’s a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you’re ‒ what you’re concentrating on.
~Sally Mann

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I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.
~Diane Arbus

I think that’s the strength of photography ‒ to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.
~Rene Burri

A really good picture looks as if it’s happened at once. It’s an immediate image.
~Helen Frankenthaler

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.
~David Hockney

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But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you’ve taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn’t.
~David Hockney

I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.
~Jeff Bridges

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If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn’t it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?
~Richard Avedon

I think the first picture taken is often the best one.
~Carine Roitfeld

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You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer’s picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor ‒ no matter what you do, and how you twist it.
~Robert Frank

Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned to making pretty pictures. Dramatic clouds and sifting light can overwhelm more mundane information. Yet who can resist beautiful landscape pictures of one kind or another? Not I.
~Lucy R Lippard

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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
~Sam Abell

If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story.
~Colleen Atwood

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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
~Ambrose Bierce

All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
~O Winston Link (vintage photographer)

I’d go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I’d take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That’s how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.
~Herb Ritts

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
~Ansel Adams

It ain’t the picture and it ain’t the camera ‒ it’s the operator.
~Simon Travaglia (writer)

Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying a guitar plays nice melodies.
~Darren Rowse

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I don’t think it’s necessary to worry too much about being authentic. I think a picture taken on an iPhone and then filtered through something to make it look like it was taken on a Super 8 camera can be just as authentic as something taken on a Super 8 camera, if it’s capturing something real or beautiful.
~Andrew VanWyngarden

Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The photo can optically replace its object to a certain degree. This takes on special meaning if the object cannot be preserved.
~Bernd Becher (industrial photog)

Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all.
~Jacques-Henri Lartigue

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My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person.
~Andy Warhol

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he’s wearing or how he looks.
~Richard Avedon

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what’s going on, but it’s representative.
~Annie Leibovitz

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it’s about all the things that make up a picture ‒ the feelings, the brushstrokes ‒ more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.
~Elizabeth Peyton

Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren’t fantasies; they need to tell a truth.
~Tim Walker

I start listening to something, or I’m seeing somebody a lot or seeing their art. And then I just really want to make a picture of them.
~Elizabeth Peyton

It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
~Paul Caponigro

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
~Andy Warhol

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I think what I’ve always done is try to present a realistic picture of the world. It’s the pursuit of beauty, but with an undertone of reality.
~Rick Owens

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I’ve never met anyone who didn’t like a pretty face.
~David Hockney

Beauty is in the character of a person. It’s about having an interesting face and about what’s inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
~Patrick Demarchelier

A tip for looking ‘picture perfect’ is probably a smile. I think everyone looks better when they are happy; you give off a glow ‒ or at least that is what my mum would say!
~Amber Le Bon

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
~Francis Bacon

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?
~Ernst Haas (photojournalist)

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Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I’m a famous author in a country where no one reads.
~John Grisham

If you start to believe the hype about yourself, then you start to lose the bigger picture, and your focus is in the wrong place.
~Justin Chancellor

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People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.
~Rihanna

This thing with everyone knowing you, it’s weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don’t really know myself that well.
~Robert Pattinson

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I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes… sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.
~Puff Daddy

I know that, for me, I need to try to cover myself while breastfeeding so that no one snaps a picture. If this wasn’t the case, I probably wouldn’t mind as much because my son is my biggest concern. My attitude is, if someone sees a little somethin’ somethin’, don’t look if you don’t like it.
~Kourtney Kardashian

Sure, having my pictures taken in the nude and doing things that I did got me in the door but it didn’t keep me in the room. To have lasted as long as I’ve lasted, obviously, I have to have something more going for me.
~Madonna Ciccone

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People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what?… They’re absolutely right.
~Madonna Ciccone

I’m not an actor because I want my picture taken. I’m an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.
~Frances McDormand

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In Atlanta, my mom came and came downstairs and we were talking like behind the crowd. People from the crowd saw me and started running towards me, asking for pictures and stuff. This girl asked for a picture, and after she got it, she passed out.
~Lil Mosey

There was one point where my mother was dying of lung cancer, and a journalist dressed up as a nurse and got in the house to get a picture of her, dying of lung cancer and stuff like that, and then you realise the fame’s not all it’s cracked up to be.
~Pete Burns

I have had the same person show up in a few cities with flowers. A lovely gentleman who gave me a picture of himself. I came home, gave it to Ian, and said, ‘If I go missing, here’s the guy.’
~Nia Vardalos

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It takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!
~Abby Lee Miller

A lot of times I have fans asking for pictures and they say ‘smile,’ but I can’t. It’s not because I’m a mean person or don’t want to be in the picture but I just can’t do it when you say ‘go, smile.’
~Marko Arnautovic (soccer)

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The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
~John Lennon

It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don’t bother to ask.
~Robert Powell

There are certain times I don’t want my picture taken. If my wife’s stepping out of a car and it looks like it’s going to come out an indecent picture, don’t I have a right to object?
~Bobby Darin

It’s one thing to ask for a picture, but to just take a picture of me is kinda weird, guys.
~Melanie Martinez (singer)

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I don’t really talk about my personal life. It’s a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you’re dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.
~Tracee Ellis Ross (daughter of Diana Ross)

I’m having a tough time coping in showbiz. I’m absolutely terrified of it. Each time you walk out, somebody wants to click a picture.
~Amyra Dastur

I’m the type of person who would rather stay home than get my picture taken.
~Ashley Olsen

Some hate broccoli, some hate bacon
I hate having my picture taken.
~Ogden Nash

The public doesn’t want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.
~Kristen Wiig

I feel like the quality of privacy and respect of people’s personal space has been completely disintegrated. You can ask to take the picture. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture.
~Busta Rhymes

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Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we’ll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there’s more!
~Thomas Pynchon (notorious recluse)

When I’m not doing the show, and the work has stopped, I walk into a restaurant and I’m shy; yet, when I’m in the show, when people come up with their phones and want to take my picture, I can handle it because it’s almost like I’m wearing an armour.
~Anthony Warlow

I get letters. I get several a week, I think. A lot of people want a picture, a lot of people just want an autograph.
~Elmore Leonard

I don’t want to dress up a picture with just my face.
~Grace Kelly

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As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won’t go anywhere until they’re done with me.
~Linda Evangelista

Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you’re wearing look great, if it’s in a picture or on the runway.
~Alessandra Ambrosio (Victoria’s Secret Angel)

Fashion it’s not just about learning how to draw pretty pictures, and how to sew, it’s everything that makes up your life.
~Tim Gunn

I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there’s a reality and relevance there, because that’s what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.
~Raf Simons

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I am fine if I am on a red carpet ‒ I know what to do. You stop and smile and pose for a picture and that’s fine.
~Holly Willoughby

Red carpets seem so glamorous, but you’re really just standing there sweating and worrying your hair is going to fall. And in the end, people are only going to see one picture of you. You just smile for one second and then you walk over to the side and check your phone. It’s pretty weird.
~Morgan Saylor

The thing about living in Los Angeles and doing a lot of movies is that you get to go to a lot of premieres, and, regardless of whether or not you’re a celebrity, you still get to walk down the red carpet and then have everyone sort of screaming your name. The pictures never get printed anywhere, but they are nonetheless taking your picture.
~Missi Pyle

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§ MUSIC:

I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing all of the different things in your life together and seeing the whole picture.
~Bjork

The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
~Hans Zimmer (film composer)

I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion ‒ as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character’s point of view is driving it at any given moment?
~Liz Phair

A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture to express different storytelling ideas.
~Howard Shore

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody’s eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody’s life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That’s why I love songwriting.
~Rodney Atkins

I think it’s such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn’t really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
~Sabrina Carpenter

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I didn’t have time to deal with practicing in a way that I would have liked to. I wish I could have just said, “I’ve got four to five hours every day that I’m going to go deal with music.” I just didn’t’ have that. I missed a lot of lessons, but I think that maybe was frustrating to me in a big picture sense of, I need the time and energy to put into my instrument.
~Jon Gordon

It’s always made me feel odd when I’d get a Dove Award for an instrumental album that has nothing to do with gospel. When I think of gospel music, I think of spreading the Good News with words. But maybe it’s just because I was heralded once upon a time as one of theirs. The category of instrumental music seems sort of important to the big picture, but I felt a little embarrassed at the same time.
~Phil Keaggy

When there are no lyrics, people can picture what they want. It’s a reflection of where they are in their lives. Music becomes a mirror.
~Hiromi Uehara

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I don’t think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.
~Steve Vai

That’s what I’ve been trying to strive for ‒ to a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.
~Mos Def

It’s amazing what the acoustic guitar can bring to the picture.
~John Waite

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I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.
~Alva Noto

I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.
~John Coltrane

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As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won’t go anywhere until they’re done with me.
~Linda Evangelista

Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you’re wearing look great, if it’s in a picture or on the runway.
~Alessandra Ambrosio (Victoria’s Secret Angel)

Fashion it’s not just about learning how to draw pretty pictures, and how to sew, it’s everything that makes up your life.
~Tim Gunn

I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there’s a reality and relevance there, because that’s what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.
~Raf Simons

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I am fine if I am on a red carpet ‒ I know what to do. You stop and smile and pose for a picture and that’s fine.
~Holly Willoughby

Red carpets seem so glamorous, but you’re really just standing there sweating and worrying your hair is going to fall. And in the end, people are only going to see one picture of you. You just smile for one second and then you walk over to the side and check your phone. It’s pretty weird.
~Morgan Saylor

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~Alyssa Stormes: the Polish Ambassador, ft. Sugar Pop Belle • Picture (4:10) is she, or isn’t she?

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~Groundation: Picture On The Wall (7:15) laid-back reggae

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~Heavy Productions: 2Pac • Picture Me Rollin‘ (5:40) thug life testimonial

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~Ripples: Status Quo • Pictures Of Matchstick Men (3:06) so ’60s, impish

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~variedades de videos: Taylor Swift • Picture To Burn (3:30) delivered with storyline

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You are not just a big-picture girl for me, Brooke Parker. You’re the only picture.
~Julie James

I think the way I feel when I look at Evan comes from her. In pictures taken the day she married my dad, she was reckless, laughing, spinning around in circles. She looked like her whole world was him. She looked a kind of happy I can’t even imagine. I don’t want that. I don’t want to be like that. I don’ want to feel the way she did because I know what happens when you do. You love with your whole heart, with everything, and you wake up one morning and kiss someone good-bye the way you always do except you mean it as good-bye forever.
~Elizabeth Scott

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Bad dude, really bad. Says he loves her more than anything. Chased away all her friends, walled her in, made her his own… then he beat her. He bloodied her! There’s pictures! Really bad. No wonder she left him.
~T Rumpledthinskin

I understand that you can never have the whole picture; inevitably, there’s stuff you don’t know, can’t know. But when it comes to Cameron I always want more than I have…
~Sara Zarr

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When your trying to be an adult in a relationship you seriously don’t need to lie or front and try to put on this big picture or pseud like your something that your not.
~Gabrielle Dennis

I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.
~Madonna Ciccone

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For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.
~Taylor Swift

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.
~Ellen Goodman

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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I’m not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who’d owned a lunch box with my picture on it.
~Shaun Cassidy

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.
~Rudolph Valentino

Where I’m at in life, the women have got to come with something else, not just the body, but the mind and spirit. It usually trips them out, but that’s the way it’s going to be. I’m looking at the big picture.
~Lenny Kravitz

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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
~Dan Butler

At the heart of the gay marriage argument is an untruth: unions of two men or women are not the same as unions of husband and wife. The law cannot make it so, it can only require us to paint pretty pictures to cover up deep truths embedded in human nature.
~Maggie Gallagher

Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There is something almost miraculous in that.
~Laurie Colwin

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No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of [Prince] William, sorry.
~Kate Middleton

If a couple has their picture taken at a wedding or other social gathering, and the woman looks hot, her guy could be blinking, chewing, or even mid-sneeze, and she’ll still display it on her desk at work.
~Brian P Cleary

You can’t paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don’t need a painting by another artist. I have enough of my own.
~Wolfgang Beltracchi

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Girls were scared of me because I can be loud. Barbara, my wife of 51 years, is very low-key. She was my picture agent’s secretary.
~Don Rickles

My husband is that rare man who is blessed with the ability to see the big picture but will not ignore the smallest detail. He will work an 18-hour day and still find time to help the kids with their homework.
~Nita Ambani

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.
~Graeme Le Saux

Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture.
~Demi Moore

I don’t have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does — and I’m much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be. [With Scott] I wanted to see him as a white knight and was crushed whenever anything normal happened. I wanted to be the princess. Now I’m much more willing to see myself as human and flawed, and accept someone — the whole picture. My life is definitely changing for the better. I couldn’t be happier or feel more comfortable with the direction it’s going in.
~Jennifer Garner

My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you’re lucky. Even if it only lasts for a minute or a day. The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years.
~Patrick Rothfuss

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A lot of people have a hard time living out of a suitcase, being on the road constantly in different cities. For us it’s just kind of what we do. You do get homesick. I miss my wife, I miss my home, I miss my dogs, I miss my kitchen, which is something I like to do outside of this is cook. You miss the simple things. But when you look at the big picture we get to see a crazy amount of cities and the people we get to meet, all over the world it kind of makes up for it. It makes you realize how lucky you are because it could be gone tomorrow you just never know.
~Barry Kerch

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
~Eminem

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In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
~Adrienne Rich

Sometimes you don’t know if your memory is because you really experienced it or because you look at your old pictures. I have a nice picture of myself held up by my grandfather and my father standing next to me. We all have the same name ‒ we’re all called Anton Corbijn. That’s something I cherish.
~Anton Corbijn

I come from a law enforcement family. My grandfather, William J. Comey, was a police officer. Pop Comey is one of my heroes. I have a picture of him on my wall in my office at the FBI, reminding me of the legacy I’ve inherited and that I must honor.
~James Comey

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My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing.
~Ne-Yo

I had lived with my mother in anger and love ‒ I suppose most daughters do ‒ but my children only knew her in one way: As the lady who thought they were smarter than Albert Einstein. As the lady who thought they wrote better than William Shakespeare. As the lady who thought every picture they drew was a Rembrandt.
~Judith Viorst

Celebrate your child’s achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don’t worry that you’re throwing away a memory. Your children will remember your praise more than they will remember the picture with macaroni and glitter glued on it.
~Niecy Nash

I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?
~Spencer W Kimball

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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

I think the one thing this picture shows that’s new is the psychological disproportion of the kids’ demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
~James Dean

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The most important item on my desk is a picture of my husband and three kids making kooky faces at my niece’s wedding. We all look silly and happy.
~Shira Goodman

If I go away, I take a little picture of my son. It’s in a frame with a speaker, and he recorded a birthday message for me when he was nine or 10. I can’t listen to it without filling up.
~Lesley Manville

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I’m friends with Taylor Swift, and I am tired of people asking me questions about our friendship. When I post a picture of us on Instagram, I’m posting a picture of me and my friend.
~Sarah Hyland

I try to make time for my friends, but why are my single friends always late? Like, what are they doing? Trying on shoes to take a picture? Just hurry up!
~Michelle Buteau

Relationships are so important to me. Talking to someone, listening to them, and even writing a handwritten note or giving someone a picture in a frame has become a lost art because we are inclined to just do it all through technology.
~Natalya Neidhart

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We weren’t friends[…]We were more like jigsaw pieces, each of us part of the same big picture. There are people like this wherever you go. They are part of the same mystery as you are, but you can’t quite tell how you fit together. The world is a puzzle, and we can’t solve it alone.
~Daniel Handler

We see ourselves in other people’s eyes. It’s the nature of the human race; we are a species of reflection, hungry for it in every facet of our existence. Maybe that’s why vampires seem so monstrous to us—they cast no reflection. Parents, if they’re good ones, reflect the wonder of our existence and the success we can become. Friends, well chosen, show us pretty pictures of ourselves, and encourage us to grow into them. The Beast shows us the very worst in ourselves and makes us know it’s true .
~Karen Marie Moning

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Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such rivalries, which is why most men remain average; males are better at hating things that can’t hate them back (e.g., lawnmowers, cats, the Denver Broncos, et cetera). They don’t see the big picture.
~Chuck Klosterman

When they make a woman’s picture, they treat it like a ‘woman’s picture.’ In the ’40s, they didn’t treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I’m upset that there’s no ‘Terminator’ with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s role. Because that would make just as much money.
~Ellen Barkin

I think ‘One Woman Army‘ sums up the overall picture. I talk about love, about life, and I talk about what I want and would hope for and what I need as a woman. It kind of just says it all, you know?
~Ciara

‘That’s What She Said‘ is not Hollywood’s standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up ‘girl’ women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.
~Carrie Preston

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I want[ed] to make a show of really big pictures, because you see male artists doing it all the time. It just seemed like such a big egotistical thing. I thought, ‘I don’t know that many women that really do that…. Damn it, I’m gonna do that‒make this really big picture.’
~Cindy Sherman

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Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.
~Marilyn Monroe

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
~Buddha

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Morality and its victim, the mother ‒ what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
~Emma Goldman

Women’s rights are nothing but a part of the bigger picture, which is human rights. Women are trusted with the lives of their kids, even serve as teachers and doctors, but they aren’t trusted with their own lives.
~Manal al-Sharif

It’s a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on.
~Christine Lagarde

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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
~P T Barnum

When I was young, my favorite picture book was ‘Fletcher and Zenobia,’ written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It’s long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children’s book for the times.
~Rick Riordan

The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.
~Anthony Browne

Children will draw pictures with everything in them…houses and trees and people and animals…and the sun AND the moon. Grown-up says, “That’s a nice picture, Honey, but you put the moon and the sun in the sky at the same time and that isn’t right.” But the child is right! The sun and moon are in the sky at the same time.
~R Buckminster Fuller

Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.
~Ann Landers

I picture Generation X as young adults living in a state of perpetual adolescence.
~Chris Eigeman

Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
~Dick Cavett

I mean, if you asked me what I’m going to be doing when I’m 85, I’d make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I’ll be singing.
~David Johansen

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When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed in front of expensive cars, homes, that weren’t ours. We borrowed dogs. Almost every family picture taken of us when I was young had a different borrowed dog in it.
~Richard Avedon (photog)

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People build up a picture of Johnny Depp as being some sort of weird pirate character. In reality he’s incredibly nice… one of the nicest people I’ve ever met.
~Freddie Highmore

Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don’t see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
~R Kelly

Bob Geldof feels the big picture all the time, even in the smallest argument when someone’s saying, ‘Well, no, you’ve got to have three staples in the program, not just two,’ Bob feels people dying somewhere.
~Richard Curtis

My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God’s presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first [compost] heap.
~Bette Midler

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I had Ohio teeth. Picture a fence with missing boards… I had gaps between a bunch of different ones.
~Matt Rife (comedian)

It’s basically the story of my life. Trying to paint the prettiest picture I can with the colors I have.
~Caleb Plant

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At my advanced age ‒ I’m now an octogenarian ‒ I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.
~Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I could never give up Mexican food. Nachos are usually my go-to if I’m courtside at an NBA game. I always, always get my picture taken with my mouth wide open and a tortilla chip sticking out of it!
~Eva Longoria

But, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer.
~Keanu Reeves

I realize that every picture isn’t a work of art.
~Conrad Hall

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Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
~Norma Shearer

I’m very visionary, very big picture.
~Max Azria (fashion designer)

I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude.
~Christopher Columbus

I have a big-picture outlook, I am willing to fall, and I understand it’s ok to fall, but I am going to get back up, I may take a step back, but in the end, I am going to take a giant leap forward.
~Tiger Woods

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If someone’s dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I’m certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
~Elizabeth Taylor

If a producer has 5 million bucks tied up in a picture, he’s not about to let a guy like Burt Reynolds wreck a car when he can get a dummy like me to do it. But some stars would make good stuntmen. Reynolds is one of them. Bob Fuller and Doug McClure are strong, tough guys with plenty of courage, too.
~Hal Needham

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don’t know what I’m doing.
~Tom Cruise

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When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.
~Beryl Bainbridge

I have a picture of me sitting on the step of a brownstone stoop with my mom and all the Muppets around us. And Perry Como, for some reason.
~Emma Walton Hamilton (children’s writer)

The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten. I have this expression on my face ‒ it’s not a smile, it’s not a frown. I swear to you, that’s the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, ‘I cannot believe how God has blessed me.’
~Viola Davis

I hate having my picture taken. Ten years ago, I stopped having a good side.
~Rene Ricard

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It’s really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I’m in a casket.
~Hank Snow (country singer)

I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I’d be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes?
~Vin Diesel

I’d read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myself in this part. Here’s this guy who seems to be the embodiment of every single perfect guy.
~Robert Pattinson

I do an hour’s yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot ‒ and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!
~Chris Martin

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I find the whole concept of being ‘sexy’ embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me ‒ dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there’s the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that’s not me.
~Emma Watson

The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn’t believe this guy was taking my picture, so when he told me to get in the bathtub, I just did. It’s only now, looking back, that I realise, you don’t have to do everything people tell you.
~Matt Damon

Not long ago, every time I did a picture shoot for a magazine, the photographer would ask me to show up wearing jeans and cowboy boots. They seemed to think I was a hillbilly. Now it’s different. Now they’re not quite sure what to make of me. And I show up wearing whatever I want.
~Troy Aikman (NFL)

There’s a line in the picture where he snarls, ‘Nobody tells me what to do.’ That’s exactly how I’ve felt all my life.
~Marlon Brando

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For all my success with the Ramones, I carried around fury and intensity during my career. I had an image, and that image was anger. I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken.
~Johnny Ramone

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.
~Jesse Jackson

I keep a picture of my beloved children close by. Also, water and plenty of pads and pens.
~Alain de Botton

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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

Her images inspired me, and I imagined being in the magazine myself. Never in a million years did I dream it would actually happen.
~Philomena Kwao (actor/writer/humanitarian)

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
~Elvis Presley

The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms [0:35] have been widely discussed.
~John Philip Sousa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ-dgiY_G4

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I was surprised I was nominated for an Oscar because ‘Cocoon‘ was such an ensemble picture. But now I’m certain it wasn’t only for ‘Cocoon.’ It was a lifetime award, so I accepted it in that vein, and it probably meant more from a recognition standpoint.
~Don Ameche

They showed this one beautiful picture of me recently and they had all the things that I had done. I thought it was a great compliment for everybody to think I’ve had plastic surgery.
~Cybill Shepherd

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Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we’ll make the picture anyway.
~Samuel Goldwyn

If people don’t want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.
~Samuel Goldwyn

President Bartlet: There’s a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn’t think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.
~Aaron Sorkin

When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?
~George Carlin

Picture it in your mind’s nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting a defenseless pine-tree air freshener.
~Sloane Crosley

My worst fault is my belief that if you put bills unopened behind a picture frame, there is no need to pay them.
~Hermione Gingold (actor)

Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.
~Phyllis Diller

My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.
~Rodney Dangerfield

I like Mitt Romney. He looks like the guy who comes with the picture frame.
~David Letterman

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.
~Allen Klein

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The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.
~John Huston

Everybody dies; that’s a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.
~Lurlene McDaniel

I’ve noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.
~Leonard Nimoy

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That’s applicable to any kind of depression.
~Judy Collins

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A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist’s role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
~Viktor E Frankl

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.
~Stevie Wonder

A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I’m one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let’s just say I’m the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.
~Bret Michaels

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The most common misperception is the word ‘design’. People think of primarily pretty pictures or forms. They don’t understand the depth to which design goes‒not only in products, but in every aspect of our life. Whether it is the design of a program, a product or some form of communication, we are living in a world that’s totally designed. Somebody made a decision about everything. And it was a design decision.
~Sam Farber

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture ‒ and forget that merchandise must be sold.
~James Randolph Adams

The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model.
Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.
~Kathy Ireland

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.
~Daniel J Boorstin

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Good work is good work wherever it’s done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
~Parker Stevenson

I’ve never worked in advertising ‒ my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines ‒ but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
~Barbara Kruger

Can you design a Rorschach test that’s going to make everyone feel something every time ‒ and that looks like a Rorschach test? It’s easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don’t know what’s happening to them?
~Jason Reitman

The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind‒computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands.The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind‒creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers. These people‒artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinker‒will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joys.
~Daniel H Pink

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We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise,
Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.
~Kendrick Lamar

You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don’t wait to react to the immediate problem. Plan ahead. Look at the big picture and you won’t ever have to deal with that problem. Better to save yourself from a major catastrophe than drag your feet over a bunch of little inconveniences.
~Richelle Mead

I definitely believe in fate. And I believe what you put in is what you get in return. That’s the way it’s worked for me. As for the big picture ‒ there’s some sort of plan.
~Elisha Cuthbert

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They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly lie after another, epicycles upon epicycles, and the fools care not. It is not enough, I tell you, to ask how the cosmos is designed. We must ask why.
~Robin Wasserman

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I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself.
~Pippa Middleton (Princess of Wales’ sister, socialite)

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn’t picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn’t a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
~Uma Thurman

I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn’t like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly.
~Kylie Bax (Playboy model/actress)

As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.
~Meat Loaf

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§ Harvested from the Net
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HONORABLE MENTIONS

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
~Henri Matisse

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
~Paul Klee

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
~Salvador Dali

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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
~Balthus

Painting is an investigation of being.
~Squeak Carnwath

Photos can be referred to when accuracy is required but not as our final composition. We must develop our minds to see and retain for later use.
~Marion Boddy-Evans

Painting is our way of communicating our thoughts; it may not always be understood by others, but we know what we mean.
~Marion Boddy-Evans

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
~Pablo Picasso

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That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.
~Robert Brault

In photography, there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
~Alfred Stieglitz

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
~Ansel Adams

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.
~Robert Frank

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
~Salman Rushdie

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A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
~Henri Cartier-Bresson

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
~Ansel Adams

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
~Ansel Adams

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A photograph is usually looked at ‒ seldom looked into.
~Ansel Adams

There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
~Richard Avedon

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Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.
~Sally Mann

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.
~Sam Abell

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus

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Photographs are priceless. Capturing something nothing else will. A precious documentation of a moment standing still.
~Nicole Baus

The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
~Henri Cartier-Bresson

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
~Eudora Welty

Taking photos is a form of collecting.
~Martin Parr

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All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don’t show the million decisions that led to that moment.
~Richard Bach

Photos are our autobiography, a way of telling who we are.
~Jan Phillips

A photo you took yourself is a tiny time machine. You know where you were standing. You hear the sounds. Best of all, you know why you took that photo.
~Pepper Hume

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Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images to look back at.
~George Kotsiopoulos

I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful.
~Kevin Systrom

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Each photograph is a story captured in a single moment
~M Lopez

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
~Oscar Wilde

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
~Thomas Babington Macaulay

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
~Charles Dickens

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No painting can tell the truth of a single instant; no snapshot can do anything else.
~John A Kouwenhoven

The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.
~Anne Geddes

A photograph can be an instant of life that will never cease looking back at you.
~Brigitte Bardot

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We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture ‒ precisely when the basics don’t come first.
~Alfie Kohn

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
~Marc Riboud

life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!
~Terry McMillan

Luxury is anything that feels special. I mean, it can be a moment, it can be a walk on the beach, it could be a kiss from your child, or it could be a beautiful picture frame, a special fragrance. I think luxury doesn’t necessarily have to mean expensive.
~Aerin Lauder

We live in such a gullible world. Anything that’s written, anything that’s posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.
~Keri Hilson

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.
~Ken Auletta

Consciously or subconsciously, we become slaves to debt and social obligation. As a result, we end up more committed to the minutia and less in tune with the bigger picture: our deepest sense of purpose.
~Romany Malco

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
~Charles Caleb Colton

People just expect you to show up, be a cartoon character of yourself, take your money and go home. But don’t screw up to the point where you’re gonna be out of the picture.
~Jimmy Chamberlin (drummer)

I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.
~Celine Dion

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The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.
~Arthur Peacocke

People are generally forced to change. We don’t want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn’t working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
~Ira Glass

We are all on a collision course with ourselves. Inevitably, our existing habits will be counter-productive to achieving our bigger picture goals. To avoid the crash, we need to regularly review how we are doing things and make adjustments as needed.
~John Fairclough

I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.
~David Christian

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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
~Goethe

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
~Norman Vincent Peale

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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
~Napoleon Hill

We become what we think; we don’t become what we don’t think about. When we think of a bigger picture, that’s what we get printed.
~Israelmore Ayivor

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If you’re public speaking, imagine yourself feeling confident; if you’re nervous about a date and thinking, ‘I’m gonna be a dork,’ picture yourself being funny. Then it will be familiar to your brain.
~Lindsey Stirling

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you’ll be doing when you’ve reached your goal.
~Earl Nightingale

You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your big dream regardless of what anyone says. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture and even you can’t see it all.
~Oprah Winfrey

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Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, sit down with myself and explain that things were going to be okay, that everybody loses ground sometimes and it doesn’t mean anything. It’s the way life works. This is hard to understand in the moment. You get to thinking about the girl who rejected you, the job you got fired from, the test you failed, and you lose sight of the big picture — the fact that life has a beautiful way of remaking itself every few weeks.
~Donald Miller

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@Writers Platform:

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
~Dale Carnegie

In everything I’ve written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don’t have a picture of myself as writing crime novels. I like fairly strong narratives, but it’s a way of getting a plot moving.
~Peter Temple

One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how they play out on real people’s lives, with real individuals.
~Ben H Winters

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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
~Ernest Hemingway

The big picture is that there is no big picture.
That’s why we keep painting it.
~Ronald Sukenick (writer)

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The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don’t have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
~Sally Mann

There are story-room sessions where you think about the big picture, like a novel, but once you have certain things in place, you have to treat each episode like an hour of TV, and think that maybe this will be the only episode that anyone will ever watch. You want to have some sort of beginning, middle, and end to the episode, even if you have storylines that are carrying over. You still want it to feel like a cohesive hour of entertainment. And you can’t think about both at the same time.
~Shawn Ryan (ex-SEAL, podcaster)

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I”m like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
~Steven Saylor (author)

Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say ‘Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table’ which gives you the whole picture.
~John Lennon

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My short stories are so character-based and they’re also so private. They’re like a private world in each story and I’m getting more and more interested in allowing myself to investigate the big picture about this country, and about human beings, and about the planet, and about the solar system, and about the nature of the material world in general. And I felt like I needed to move into a bigger form.
~Ottessa Moshfegh

It’s no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
~Don DeLillo

I didn’t know enough as a writer to understand why I needed to do this, but I understood in a very gut way that I could not entertain those thoughts of pleasing people and write this book ‒ that it would be a very different book. Without really sort of investigating that instinct, which I’m glad for, I just made a conscious decision to put blinders on and not think about anything and put it all in. And I did. I put everything in. I had to look at the whole picture to see what I needed.
~Melissa Febos

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In the big picture I write for an audience of people I’ve never met. By the final draft I’m looking for anything in the prose that’s prospectively boring to strangers.
~Lionel Shriver

I can’t think of a story that doesn’t have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it’s dull. So when I embarked into the world of picture books, my first thought was to do something about the dark.
~Daniel Handler (Series of Unfortunate Events, pen name: Lemony Snicket)

There’s information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology–and that’s just in the P aisle, which we’re walking down right now.
~Daniel Handler

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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
~H P Lovecraft

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I think the reason I’m a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.
~Andrew Clements

‘The Lion‘ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‘Let’s try to make a story about it.’
~C S Lewis

In the author’s mind there bubbles up every now and then the material for a story. For me, it invariably begins with mental pictures.
~C S Lewis

I have trouble writing if I can’t picture how things are going to look.
~Robert Kirkman

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The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive.
~Joan Didion

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
~Helen Hayes

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Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader’s imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.
~Anthony Browne

When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don’t want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.
~Daniel Handler

Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We’ve been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It’s like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story.
~Deborah Wiles

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Whether it’s music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship ‒ if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.
~Chris Raschka

I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures ‒ I do my best with that format.
~Dick Bruna

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The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.
~James Lafferty

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.
~Howard Hodgkin

I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words.
~Jane Yolen

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I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children’s books are the ones who create their own picture books. I wish I could say I’m one of them, but I’m not.
~Judy Blume

I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don’t have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.
~Kristen Stewart

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Working improvisationally in my studio with dancers, it’s completely different. We don’t have any starting point; we don’t have an end point. We don’t have anything we are trying to show or do. The picture evolves from nowhere.
~Lois Greenfield

I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it’s an outlet, it’s emotional.
~Jason Shawn Alexander

Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.
~Andre Malraux

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
~Bjarke Ingels

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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
~Claude Monet

I start a picture and I finish it.
~Jean-Michel Basquiat

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
~Pablo Picasso

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

That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
~Alberto Giacometti (Swiss sculptor/painter)

When I finish a picture I don’t show it to anyone if I feel it’s not good enough yet. I’ve learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it’s the biggest success if they like it.
~Marilyn Manson

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.
~Bridget Riley

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Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.
~Otto Dix

The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds.
~Yves Klein

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
~Caspar David Friedrich (German painter)

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
~Edvard Munch

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Prewritten Prompt: picture

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Suffering does not call into question the “big picture” of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.
~Alister E McGrath

Because I am a part of the Big Picture, I do matter and substantially so. Because I am only a part, however, I am rightly situated off to stage right—and happily so. What freedom there is in such truth! We are inherently important and included, yet not burdened with manufacturing or sustaining that private importance. Our dignity is given by God, and we are freed from ourselves!
~Richard Rohr

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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

Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else ‒ nirvana.
~Frederick Lenz

Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it’s your job to kill; and whether they were your friends or not, you have to look at the big picture. In the big picture, you can’t go kill anybody, you can’t be killed.
~Frederick Lenz

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.
~Paulo Coelho

Always keep the big picture in mind‒ you are greatly loved by Jesus and your job is to love Him and others in return. The rest is detail.
~Bear Grylls

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Evil was necessary because without it free will was impossible, and without free will there could be no growth—no forward movement, no chance for us to become what God longed for us to be. Horrible and all-powerful as evil sometimes seemed to be in a world like ours, in the larger picture love was overwhelmingly dominant, and it would ultimately be triumphant.
~Eben Alexander

We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.
~Pope Francis

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The story of Hosea and Gomer is the second most powerful picture of God’s love in the Bible. Other than Christ’s death, there is no greater picture of love.
~Jud Wilhite

God commands the prophet Hosea to marry Gomer, a promiscuous woman, symbolizing Israel’s spiritual adultery through idol worship. Despite bearing three children and receiving Hosea’s love, Gomer abandons him for other lovers.
~Art Int

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The definition of a Church is crystal clear in the New Testament. We see the picture of it. They came together the first day of the week. They worshiped the Lord, they prayed… It was fellowship and it was the breaking of bread in the Lord’s supper.
~John MacArthur

I still follow the lifestyle of the Mormon church. I try to go to church every Sunday even when I’m on tour. It’s not only my upbringing, but it helps me stay sane. It helps me remember my purpose and the overall picture of what is important to me and what makes me happy.
~Lindsey Stirling

[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time.
~Edna St Vincent Millay

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It’s only now that I see the bigger picture: Our ways to attain spirituality may be different ‒ through diverse religious, customs and traditions ‒ but they’re modeled on similar principles and ideologies. That’s what ties us all together.
~Sunita Williams

A man’s action is only a picture book of his creed.
~Arthur Helps

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My favorite writers are all Jews – David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark ‒ well, you get the picture.
~Zig Ziglar

Give me any two pages of the Bible and I’ll give you a picture.
~Cecil B DeMille

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My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, then in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
~John Henrik Clarke

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I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.
~Henry Flynt

The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.
~Ramana Maharshi

And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece of the larger picture of your life.
~Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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There’s a moment for everybody when you look at that picture of Jesus in the church and think, ‘This doesn’t totally make sense.’ If God made everything, then who made God? We have no idea.
~Genesis P-Orridge

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‘Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame‘ tells it like it really was in America’s early space program ‒ the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.
~Buzz Aldrin

In a big picture sense, it’s more national prestige that we’re risking. You know, we are proud of our space program, but as we were talking earlier, the average American doesn’t think that much about it right now. So, it may seem like something we could just give up and not really worry about it, but I think it starts creeping into the national psyche. If American astronauts have to hitch rides with the Russians or other nations in the future.
~Leroy Chiao

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In space, you can’t see the borders. It doesn’t look like a map. We’re all like kids fighting in a sandbox, on the political and human side of it. The International Space Station was built in orbit. Each piece hurtled into space at eight kilometres per second. From an engineering point of view, it’s madness. It’s also a feat of policy ‒ Russia, the U.S., Germany and Japan working together. Do you realize what that means? These countries were sending nukes to each other a generation ago. Space does that. It gives us that amazing big picture.
~David Saint-Jacques

Whitman expressed the whole universe in his poetry and in his catalogues. That attitude almost defines what we call American romanticism, or American transcendentalism. I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I’m in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.
~Story Musgrave (astronaut)

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.
~Richard Powers

Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world ‒ possibly none ‒ have a sufficiently thorough, ‘big picture’ understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.
~Roy Spencer

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I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It’s a great hacker’s tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.
~Jamie Zawinski

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
~Marshall McLuhan

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A picture is worth a thousand words. A satellite image is worth a million dollars.
~Sarah Parcak

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.
~Ben Shneiderman

Know what you’re trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn’t enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.
~Steve Albini

Might we… be doing something with our brains that cannot be described in computational terms at all? How do our feelings of conscious awareness ‒ of happiness, pain, love, aesthetic sensibility, will, understanding, etc. ‒ fit into such a computational picture?
~Roger Penrose

A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are to actually go out. They just really want to get a picture to post to their buddies, and that’s about it.
~Dave Attell

Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn’t looking down at a device in their hands? We’ve become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.
~Regina Brett

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There’s a lot wrong [with American universities]. I’d remove 3/4 of the faculty ‒ everything but the hard sciences. But nobody’s going to do that, so we’ll have to live with the defects. It’s amazing how wrongheaded [the teaching is]. There is fatal disconnectedness. You have these squirrelly people in each department who don’t see the big picture.
~Charlie Munger (Berkshire Hathaway)

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.
~Michael Ignatieff

For all the time schools devote to the teaching of mathematics, very little (if any) is spent trying to convey just what the subject is about. Instead, the focus is on learning and applying various procedures to solve math problems. That’s a bit like explaining soccer by saying it is executing a series of maneuvers to get the ball into the goal. Both accurately describe various key features, but they miss the what and the why of the big picture.
~Keith Devlin

We make small fixes with programs to emphasize key areas, but we don’t think strategically about the bigger picture, … We can’t afford to leave the future of our nation’s higher education community to chance.
~Margaret Spellings

What is basically just an IQ score has roots in education, socioeconomic status, genetics, and environmental factors. Looking at any one of these roots doesn’t give you a full picture of the tree, but it does tell you that a tree is there.
~Kyle Hill

Orientalism has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of view and always see things from different perspective.
~Okky Madasari

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
~William Glasser

Pictures have given me all the education I’ve ever had since I never went beyond the fifth grade.
~Joan Crawford

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Among the beautiful pictures
That hang on Memory’s wall.
Is one of a dim old forest,
That seemeth best of all.
~Alice Cary

I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don’t invent the whole picture. On the contrary, I find it already there. It’s a question of picking out what one wants from nature.
~Vincent Van Gogh

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can’t be done in one picture.
~David Hockney

The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries ‒ a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even, after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires, and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man.
~Gerald Durrell

Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can’t figure it out.
~Frederick Lenz

It’s not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope.
~Jane Goodall

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
~David Attenborough

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.
~Pierre Bonnard

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§ The Exercise:

torn
sunset, small pueblito plaza
song out of a local station
in english, a spanish elsewhere
gringo ears to gringo tears
difference between here and there
to a T

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5s ‘n 7s

picture lives as in contest
persistence, its resistance
solitude, belong the crowd
whisper-tears or cried aloud
join the fray but rather play
to believe or not believe
opt to be or not to be

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picture a foreign language
quaint rhythms, verbs, consonants
conversations in chorus
spooled symphony in phrasings
detonations of laughter
nary a word understood
audience to a music

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picture disaster pending
news a certified shit show
fresh out of toilet paper
fatal view now destiny
foretold science what’s to be

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fitted needs of history
vacancy’s causality
full-fledged personalities
picture anger’s third degree
filled as if to prophesy

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picture the instant
sudden thunder clap
danger insistent
reverie collapse
heart-attack relapse
you in the hallway
me, full guilt to pay

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township tourist trap
picture life as staged
vignettes with appeal
days replicating
strangely surreal
details explicating
authentic but real

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personality
it’s the grey shadows in clouds
gives them character
picture the dark times in life
against the background of night

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snapshots from the past
pretending as memories
blurred fuzzy focus
should passion cloud the picture
or show itself incomplete

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picture forever
picture the embarrassment
there is no such thing
picturing love without you
godless comes to the same thing

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face frozen in fear
tear gas a mustard yellow
picture of dissent

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers’ bathing suits… Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.
~Michael Connelly

With so much sky and so much river, you couldn’t help seeing the big picture. It was what you already knew, but crowding into the subway or rushing to a movie, you only saw it for a second, and close up. Now I took a good long look. I’d always heard you couldn’t see stars in Manhattan because of all the lights. But here they all were. Here was my night in shining armor.
~Melissa Bank

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Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
~Anne Sexton

The soul never thinks without a picture.
~Aristotle

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One rough patch is not the big picture.
~Ellen DeGeneres

Appreciation is a powerful tool to shift perspective. Finding something to appreciate during a difficult situation quickly moves the perspective to the big picture from the little picture.
~Doc Childre

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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
~Edmond de Goncourt

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
~John Tukey

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A picture is worth a thousand words.
~Fred R Barnard (and others)

Visual art and writing don’t exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can’t do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.
~William S Burroughs

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
~Raymond Chandler

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we’re all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose… When you connect with that love and that compassion, that’s when everything unfolds.
~Ellen DeGeneres

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The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
~Terry Pratchett

Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human condition that something as precious as the future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that’s what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you’re young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.
~Simon Pegg

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Pictures help you to form the mental mold.
~Robert Collier

A picture can hide as much as it reveals.
~Alexandra Petri

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People must look at the bigger picture. We cannot continue doing things as was in the past. People must learn to accept change.
~Pierre Voges

Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
~Irving Thalberg

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Mom. She always says to look at the big picture. How all of the little things don’t matter in the long run. . . I know that Mom is right about the big picture. But Dad is right too: Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other. The dots matter.
~Rebecca Stead

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.
~Stephen Hawking

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I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.
~Joe Shuster

Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful ‒ I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!
~Jaime Hernandez (comics writer)

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I’m always in those tabloids where they show who’s badly dressed. It’s funny, because each time I’m getting my picture taken, I’m thinking, This is a nice outfit.
~Sarah Silverman

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn’t resemble us.
~Peg Bracken

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Life is a million different dots making one gigantic picture. And maybe the big picture is nice, maybe it’s amazing, but if you’re standing with your face pressed up against a bunch of black dots, it’s really hard to tell.
~Rebecca Stead

Panorama is the first word for landscape in Greek. It was about [how today] we see everything, we get to see everything, everything is shown to you whether you want it or not, but all of the time you only see fragments of reality. The big picture we really don’t see; it’s kind of hard to make it up.
~Michal Rovner

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I find it weird that people who claim to speak for the prisoners basically want to keep them in cages all the time ‒ and then they’ll fight for better prison libraries or whatever. It’s like they’re missing the big picture. If I were in prison, of course I would prefer to be outside doing physical labour. It’s not physical labour but prison life that kills a person. It’s so bad inside that the outside jobs are often sought after. So, yeah, call them work crews and let them do it. At the same time the retributive side can feel the cons are being punished.
~Peter Moskos

The big picture is a nice way to think of things if you have the freedom to.
~Jack White

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. . . crazy world or maybe it’s just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.
~Judith Guest

In the big picture, life has a gap in it. It just does. You don’t go crazy trying to fill it.
~Sarah Silverman

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When things don’t happen in my life, I believe that I’ve been pushed into another path for a reason, and there’s a bigger picture.
~Alex Scott

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.
~Lisa See

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The ethics of excellence requires a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment you might mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk and lose the bet?
~Price Pritchett

I’ve never made a film that I didn’t believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I’ve always given everything to it. That’s kind of how I approach life. I can’t help it. There’s no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.
~Tom Cruise

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Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth ‒ the truth about God and about us. By its nature, relativism fails to see the whole picture. It ignores the very principles that enable us to live and flourish in unity, order and harmony.
~Pope Benedict XVI

A crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
~Francis Bacon

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When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
~Aleksandar Hemon

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
~Walter Benjamin

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Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.
~Winston Churchill

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
~Diane Arbus

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Man is the only picture-making animal in the world. He alone of all inhabitants of the earth has the capacity and passion for pictures.
~Frederick Douglass (abolitionist)

The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.
~Scott Lorenzo

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Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.
~Eckhart Tolle

I see a picture right now that’s not parallel, so I’m going to go straighten it. Things must be in order.
~Katherine Johnson

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The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
~Mercy Otis Warren

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Life is a marathon, not a sprint. It’s about taking a bigger-picture approach.
~Ivanka Trump

For hers were the eyes that would hook on to the tiny details of the bigger picture.
~Aarsha Sadar

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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.
~Sylvia Plath

We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul.
~Robert Breault

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Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
~Alfred Sisley

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
~Annie Leibovitz

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If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribute to your inner growth.
~Peace Pilgrim

You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual part plays. The dawn comes, the sky grows light, and the colors and shapes of the roofs of houses, which you could only glimpse vaguely before, come into focus.
~Haruki Murakami

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