A Quotes
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“A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer”
Source: Writings on Art
“A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent.”
Source: The Rothko Chapel: An Act of Faith
“A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.”
Source: Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
“A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a few words can paint a thousand pictures...”
“A picture may be worth a thousand words but it needs a thousand words to describe a picture.”
Source: Sex Surrealism Dali & Me
“A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the goal of a good author- the goal of a Great author- is to make one word worth a thousand pictures.”
Source: Maldene
“A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture.”
“A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.”
Source: Andy Warhol: through a glass starkly : Sept. 8-Dec. 12, 2009 [exhibition catalog]
“A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows”
“A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'”
“A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment.”
Source: The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus
“A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.”
“A picture of the world, nothing more than a casting stone set in the heavens, intruded on Errol's dismay. World without end. Was Illustra, their entire world, nothing more than a lot for the ultimate reader, too small and insignificant a thing to care about?”
Source: A Draw of Kings
“A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.”
“A picture post card had landed in our letter box on my birthday when I was in 9th. It was sent by a friend who was away. A picture of a Jungle and mountains at a distance captivated me. I turned it to read:
"You have just landed in Jungle. You have to pass through it facing challenges, reach the mountain and then climb to the top... I know you can and you will.."
Deeply inspired and motivated I started and chose to focus on TT, did well to play Nationals, had just started to climb the mountain, the luck pushed me down. Fell flat. Yet, the words shone in the skies of my mind. I got up and started climbing.
Today at 60 I know that some mountain tops are illusions. They are there yet they are not there. Does it mean we should stop climbing? No. We shouldn't. We need to carry on by adding to our capabilities through constant learning.
Wherever we reach will be our own Mountain Top. Stand there, look back and shout it out : Hey, God, here I am! Thanks for bringing me here. In gratitude, I now GIVE happily.”
“A picture's worth a thousand words, a video's worth a million pictures, and a dream is worth a trillion videos. - The Malwatch”
“A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.”
“A picture should be looked at - not talked about.”
“A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“A picture story is a sequence of images combined with text in such a way that pictures and words reinforce each other.
They produce a planned, organized combination giving detailed account of an event, personality or aspect of life.”
“A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.”
“A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement. It's more like if you did an illuminated novel. I think both of those things should be running at full blast, not less of both so it becomes an easier thing. I think it should be twice as dense. That's just what interests me.”
“A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.”
“A picture that is ghostly and silent can be more eloquent and less clichéd than a noisier photo-journalistic approach and I have attempted to make pictures that whilst they are not documentary in the traditional sense, they are still documents, like forensic traces.”
“A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.”
Source: Waiting for the dark, waiting for the light
“A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.”
“A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“A picture will leave me unmoved if I don't take time with it, but if I stop, and let myself get a little lost, there's no telling what might happen”
Source: Pictures and Tears
“A picture without sky has no glory. This present, unless we see gleaming beyond it the eternal calm of the heavens, above the tossing tree tops with withering leaves, and the smoky chimneys, is a poor thing for our eyes to gaze at, or our hearts to love, or our hands to toil on.”
Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture
“A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.”
Source: Days of Reading
“A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.”
“A picture, of Jock Semple kissed me,appeared in The New York Times the next day after Boston Marathon in 1973, and the caption was "The end of an era."”
“A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs
“A pie dough comes together exactly like a biscuit only there is very, very little liquid and no leavening involved. Other than that, the same rules apply. My best advice: handle the dough as little as possible.”
Source: I'm Just Here for More Food: Food x Mixing + Heat = Baking
“A pie in the face is funny. Comedy gold.”
“A pie is only as good as its pastry, and one of the delights of a good pie is the contrast in texture between the crisp pastry and the filling - whatever it might be. In a perfect pie, each component is independently perfect - the mouthfeel of the pastry (buttery, flaky, crumbly) and the mouthfeel of the filling (rich, unctuous, tender, sticky, crunchy, etc.); and the whole is more than the sum of its parts.”
Source: Pie: A Global History
“A pie, like a building, requires construction after all.”
Source: Pie: A Global History
“A piebald horse
his neck dappled
under the dark mane
spring willows rising through mist
the lute girl
coaxing me with wine
in a golden cup
can blood and spirit
live together?
can they survive apart?”
“A piece of a Churchyard fits everybody.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.”
“A piece of advice his father had given him surfaced in Edgar's mind. Sometimes, he had said, it's better just to keep quiet and think with your heart.”
Source: The Devil's Door
“A piece of advice I would give to young actors - hang on to your family, and hang on to your reality - and hang on to your "real". Because you're going into the land of make believe.”
“A piece of advice if I may be allowed to give it, is that no philosophy, no creed, no God is worth more than the love that one human being may give and receive in their lifetime – this is what is meant by being ‘involved’.”
“A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have to do with the set of expectations that the viewer or the audience or the reader brings to that work. It should just have to do with how they interpret it and whether they like it or not.”
“A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It may dispel biased perceptions; make us recognize ignored fragments and remember forsaken episodes of our life story. Art may sometimes even be nasty and disturbing, if we don’t want to consent to its philosophy or concept, but it might, in the end, perhaps reconcile us with ourselves. ("When is Art?")”
“A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.”
“A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.”
“A piece of art is part of its creator, you cannot split them apart. You cannot like one and dislike another.”
“A piece of benevolence, a shard of good will is sometimes all that is needed to raise a truly loyal army.”
“A piece of cloth that is called "linen" has more validity than calling you and me "black" or "negro." "Cotton" has more validity as cotton than yours and my being "black."”