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

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.
Edward Weston

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.
Jonathan Miller

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

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.
Herb Ritts

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
Alberto Giacometti

I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.
Jack Chick

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
Garry Kasparov

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.
Georg Simmel

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
Sam Peckinpah

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

In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
Walter Kaufmann

It was wonderful to play such a part, but I was disappointed with the picture.
Herbert Lom

When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it was.
Broderick Crawford

Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
Elia Kazan

Details create the big picture.
Sanford I. Weill

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

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.
Henry Flynt

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
Anthony Trollope

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.
Alan Rudolph