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.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and few copies. Alexis de Tocqueville
He sees more in my pictures than I ever painted! J.M.W. Turner
His pictures seem to resemble not pictures but a sample book of patterns of linoleum Cyril Asquith
Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future. Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Pictures of perfection as you know make me sick and wicked. Jane Austen
Pictures have given me all the education I've ever had since I never went beyond the fifth grade. Joan Crawford
When your head's full of pictures, they have to come out. Bill Maynard
Only, for tears my head will bow, / Because they're on my heart's last wall, / Scarce one tint left to tell it all, / A picture keeps its eyes, somehow. William Vaughn Moody
Among the beautiful pictures / That hang on Memory’s wall. / Is one of a dim old forest, / That seemeth best of all. Alice Cary
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. Annie Leibovitz
We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us. Ralph Hattersley
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. Robert Frank
In photography, there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. Alfred Stieglitz
It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are. Paul Caponigro
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do. Andy Warhol
Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies. Diane Arbus
The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality. Scott Lorenzo
I don’t trust words. I trust pictures. Gilles Peress
Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen. Anne Sexton
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not. Aleksandar Hemon