My Picture Quotes

The light beyond my eyes flashflashflashes with a hundred futures for me. Doctor. Ship's captain. Forest ranger. Librarian. Beloved of that man or that women or those children or those people who voted for me or who painted my picture. Poet. Acrobat. Engineer. Friend. Guardian. Avenging whirlwind. A million futures--not all pretty, not all long, but all of them mine. I do have a choice - p. 271
- Laurie Halse Anderson

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.
- Richard Avedon

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.
- Theda Bara

Huge Jackman has divorced his wife and happened upon my picture in some old article and decided that I'm the woman for him?
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.
- Jello Biafra

Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when
I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then
my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd
- William Blake

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
- Berkeley Breathed

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

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
- Charlie Chaplin

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

We have to draw the line somewhere. I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.
- Jack T Chick

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.
- Julie Christie

Nobody ever took my picture. They didn't want to. Or I wouldn't let them.
You were the only exception.
- David Levithan

I don't understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I'm amazed what people come up with when they look at them. There's one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
- Billy Connolly

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

For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.
- Nigel Dennis

I fix mine eye on thine, and there
Pity my picture burning in thine eye..
- John Donne

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

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.
- Angie Everhart

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.
- Robbie Fowler

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.
- Robert Frank

I'm pretty sure that if you looked up the word "nuts" in the dictionary, you'll find my picture. Just another fun feature of my mutant-birdkid-freak package.
- James Patterson

The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?
- H R Giger

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

My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.
- Leonard Nimoy

I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.
- Christina Hendricks

I'm even embarrassed at times when my friends come upon my pictures.
- Eva Herzigova

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.
- Howard Hodgkin

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'
- Howard Hodgkin

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.
- Howard Hodgkin

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
- William Hogarth

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.
- Buster Keaton

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
- Pablo Picasso

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.
- Gustav Klimt

As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.
- Alan Ladd

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

If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures.
- Edwin Henry Landseer

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.
- Annie Leibovitz

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

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.
- Roy Lichtenstein

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.
- Laura Linney

The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
- Nastia Liukin

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.
- Rene Magritte

I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it.
- Robert Mapplethorpe

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.
- Vincente Minnelli

My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.
- Margaret Obrien

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

I hate having my picture taken.
- Zara Phillips

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. 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.
- Jackson Pollock

I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.
- Emily Procter

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 remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.
- Galen Rowell

My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.
- Kurt Schwitters

I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.
- Ben Shahn

I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.
- Sargent Shriver

When California provides the same value as other locations, I'd gladly shoot all my pictures here.
- Joel Silver

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.
- Douglas Sirk

Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.
- Douglas Sirk

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
- Douglas Sirk

I found Esau's field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until my eyes grew heavy. From his vast notes, it seemed that almost every plant and tree in the jungle had a reason for existing.
I caught myself wishing there was a page in his guide that had my picture on it with the reason for my existence written underneath in Esau's neat hand.
- Maria V Snyder

No one has called any of my pictures obscene ever but I have been constantly blamed for an even greater sin the ugliness.
[Vincent Van Gogh]
- Irving Stone

I've never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure there's enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures.
- Carrie Underwood

Change wasn't something to fear anymore. And even though my picture was hung on the wall, I didn't care so much about how I'd be remembered. So long as I never forgot.
- Siobhan Vivian

Why should I have my picture taken when I can get paid for it?
- Pearl White

I've had so much stress in the last year so it's really a struggle. I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.
- Carnie Wilson

I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.
- Carnie Wilson