Best Picture Quotes

• The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

  Robert Capa

  Photography, Truth Is, Propaganda

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• Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

  Norman Jewison

  Oscars, Comedy, Moonstruck

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• Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.

  Leonard Maltin

  Firsts, Beast, Animated

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• I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do

  Dalton Trumbo

  Brother, Kings, Years

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• The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Fitness, Communication, Philosophical

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

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• Our best pictures happen by grace.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Grace, Happens

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• The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Lying, Vision

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• I am not unaware that I have the mindset, as contradictory as it may sound, to discover in the world what I am in fact looking for. Perhaps the best pictures are a seamless hybrid of discovery and construction.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Discovery, Sound

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• The best pictures are yet to be made.

  Frank Capra

  Made

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• The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Opportunity, Ninety Nine, Novel

  Lincoln Steffens (1936). “Lincoln Steffens speaking”

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• Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.

  Harold Ramis

  Names, Ambitious, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.

  Ansel Adams

  Prosperity, Corners, Around The Corner

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• The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Painting, Painter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”

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• The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sculpture, Painting, Approach

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.93, Wildside Press LLC

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• I'm very surprised at Carol didn't get a best picture. Todd Haynes is an Academy darling, his period pieces are nothing short of brilliant, and they hold up. And I definitely feel like Carol speaks to, even though it's set in the past, it speaks to themes we're dealing with in life right now. It's really really shocking that it didn't get it.

  Bun B

  Past, Pieces, Brilliant

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• The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Dream, Perfection, Smoking

  Vincent Van Gogh (2013). “Van Gogh on Art and Artists: Letters to Emile Bernard”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• The best picture I got was Bianca Jagger whispering in Mick's ear. I caught them telling a secret, which is sort of rude.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Artist, Rude, Secret

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• There is a great quote from a female writer. She said, 'If you don't break out in a sweat of fear when you write, you are not writing well enough. I tend to agree. I think my best pictures come when I push myself.

  Sally Mann

  Writing, Thinking, Sweat

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• My first wedding was 15 people at our condo. The second was maybe about a hundred people at this fabulous casino. And you know what? I have almost no pictures of the second one, because I put disposable cameras on the tables, because everyone said, "The best pictures are the most candid! The best pictures are the ones people just take!" So, I put disposable cameras on the tables, and guess what? There were so many kids there that those cameras were stomped on. I had so many pictures of the floor, of people's eyes, of someone's finger.

  Viola Davis

  Kids, Eye, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My best Pictures are the ones I don’t understand.

  Roger Ballen

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• The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography

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• My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'

  Jerry Saltz

  Movie, Christian, Years

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• 'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.

  Eli Roth

  Smart, Winning, Done

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• 'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

  Ron Fournier

  Zero, Dark, Three

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• the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humour. Then more details are required and one paints a second portrait, and a third – before long the best lines cancel out – and the secret is exposed at last; the planes of the pictures have intermingled and given us away, and though we paint and paint we can no longer sell a picture. We must be satisfied with hoping that such fatuous accounts of ourselves as we make to our wives and children and business associates are accepted as true

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Children, Giving, Wife

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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