Pictures Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old pictures quotes, pictures sayings, and pictures proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood. Robert Brault
Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. Marc Riboud
Pictures can be pretty deceptive. Gayle Forman
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. Ambrose Bierce
A photograph is usually looked at ? seldom looked into. Ansel Adams
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. Eudora Welty
There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. Richard Avedon
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. Ansel Adams
Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me. Sam Abell
The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed. Anne Geddes
You don't take a photograph, you make it. Ansel Adams
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. Diane Arbus
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words. Elliott Erwitt
Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future. Sally Mann
If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough. Robert Capa
That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you. David Byrne
Taking photos is a form of collecting. Martin Parr
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. Oscar Wilde
All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment. Richard Bach
No painting can tell the truth of a single instant; nosnapshot can do anything else. John A Kouwenhoven
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. Charles Dickens
I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful. Kevin Systrom
Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images to look back at. George Kotsiopoulos
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. William Wordsworth
Pictures must not be too picturesque. Ralph Waldo Emerson
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. Robert Mapplethorpe
When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move. Michael Douglas
Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for. Tibor Kalman
Pictures help you to form the mental mold. Robert Collier