Quotes and Sayings about Pictures

For a while, for as long as you're looking at it, that painting is the world and you get to be in it.

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

Life is like a good black and white photograph, there's black, there's white, and lots of shades in between.

Life is like a camera. Just focus on what's important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don't work out, just take another shot.

Pictures can be twisted and used against you and haunt you forever.

Photography is magic, it's a time capsule. It's something that keeps that moment alive.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Through the lens is how the world makes sense to me.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

The photographer, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures, but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why.

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

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.

I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can.

I believe that a photographer should point her lens outward, toward the world. So you can try and understand it.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

The best moments in life are the ones that make us smile when we think about them.

Its so hard to forget someone, who gave you so much to remember.

The truth is, it's all of your memories, the joyful ones and the heartbreaking ones, that make up who you are as a person.

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.

Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

Kids, you can't cling to the past. Because no matter how tight you hold on... it's already gone.

The only reason we hold on memories so tight, is because memories won't change, when everything else does.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

I mean, they say dou die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you've lost.

Today's special moments are tomorrow's memories.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

[Minuet of Forest]
The flow of time is always cruel. Its speed seems different for each person, but no one can change it. A thing that does not change with time is a memory of younger days.

Brom: "The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we want them or not... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live on in memories. That which you will hear is imperfect and fragmented, yet treasure it, for without you it does not exist. I give you now a memory that has been forgotten, hidden in the dreamy haze that lies behind us."

We learn more by remembering than forgetting.

Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

Art is a way of survival.

Dreaming's the only way to get anywhere.

I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what’s on the wall. I look at this painting and think about how everyone has some secret inside, something sleeping like that yellow bird.

It's harder to make someone laugh than it is to make them cry.

I guess there are a lot of people who don't know the right thing to say. You don't notice them so much because they pretend they do.

It's a different kind of missing. You're trying to remember, and he's trying to forget.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.