Picture Quotes

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
― Marc Riboud

“The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell you so.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“He was like one of those pictures full of small errors, the kind you could only pick out by searching the image from every angle, and even then, a few always slipped by. On the surface, Eli seemed perfectly normal, but now and then Victor would catch a crack, a sideways glance, a moment when his roommate's face and his words, his look and his meaning, would not line up. Those fleeting slices fascinated Victor. It was like watching two people, one hiding in the other's skin. And their skin was always too dry, on the verge of cracking and showing the color of the thing beneath.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.”
― Pablo Picasso

“The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Miles Between

“A picture can tell a thousand words,
but a few words can change it’s story.”
― Sebastyne Young

“Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can't read the predictable features, it reacts with alarm or aversion. Faces which don’t fit in the picture are socially banned. An ugly countenance, a hideous outlook can be considered as a crime and criminals must be inexorably discarded from society. ( "Ugly mug offense" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not form the context anymore and all connections on the social chessboard are conked out. Only patience and endurance may draw us out of the quagmire of numbness and allow us to tear open the cloudy screen that is hiding our points of ‘interest’ and ‘attention’, so long as we focus on the ‘singular moments’ and the ‘appealing details’ in our life. Awareness can help us shape a comprehensive picture for a functional future. ("Lost the global story.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

“When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.”
― Alice Hoffman, Here on Earth

“She can paint a lovely picture, but this story has a twist. her paintbrush is a razor, and her canvas is her wrist.”
― Amy Efaw, After

“I see your picture and in that picture I didn't see you.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Obscurity

“Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.”
― Helen Hayes

“I take a picture, but it's not about who is in the picture or the background of it. It's about the memories and meanings it holds.”
― Kayla Davis

“If a picture paints a thousand words, then a naked picture paints a thousand words without any vowels....”
― Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single

“Any problem can be made clearer with a picture, and any picture can be created using the same set of tools and rules.”
― Dan Roam, The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures

“In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“I picture you four girls back when you were small. I hardly knew where you ended and the other ones started.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

“A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.”
― Ryan Lilly

“Come, I tell you. You have chattered enough about corruption. Now you shall look on it face to face!”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Snake pulled out the digital camera and decided to play a joke on Otacon. He snapped a picture of the pinup, muttered, "Good," and closed the door.”
― Raymond Benson, Sons of Liberty

“After we've been dancing awhile and need a breather, we walk off the dance floor. I whip out my cell and say, "Pose for me."
The first picture I take is of him trying to pose like a cool bad boy. It makes me laugh. I take another one before he can strike a pose this time.
"Let's take one of the both of us," he says, pulling me close. I press my cheek against his while he takes my cell and puts it as far away as he can reach, then freezes this perfect moment with a click. After the picture is taken, he pulls me into his arms and kisses me.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

“A picture is a picture, it doesn't matter what camera you use!" - Chris Geiger”
― Chris Geiger, The Cancer Survivors Club: A collection of inspirational and uplifting stories

“Things aren't always as they appear. We must realize the bigger picture.”
― Anna Moore Bradfield

“The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.”
― Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

“A picture also displays nonvisual writing that only a few can realize and understand.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Fragmented memories,
lost or not lost are holding me back. 
But aren’t they just memories?
What am I?
Not a memory.
Small tiny memories not quite remembered,
are keeping me bound to this world. 
Why do they come up now?
I was so near, everything was so calm. 
Everything was so clear.
And now I’m up in the mind again,
trying to find solutions to the non-existing problem. 
The jigsaw puzzle doesn’t want to be solved, 
doesn’t want to be put together,
doesn’t want to reveal the whole picture. 
But does it really matter?”
― Nanne Nyander, The Way Back Home: Poems