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

  Leonard Maltin

  Firsts, Beast, Animated

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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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• 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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• Our best pictures happen by grace.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Grace, Happens

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• The best pictures are yet to be made.

  Frank Capra

  Made

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

  Roger Ballen

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• You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)

  Robert Capa

  War, Cameras, Truth Is

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

  John Szarkowski

  Photography

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• Guys, IMDB right there, 62 movies, a ton of success, I mean, come on bro, I won best picture at 20. I wasn't even trying.

  Charlie Sheen

  Mean, Guy, Trying

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• Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.

  Alberto Korda

  Cameras, Dollars, Lenses

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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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• 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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• 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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• Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.

  Tatjana Soli

  War, Accessories, Stories

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• I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.

  William Albert Allard

  Photography, Thinking, Interesting

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• This blacklisting is going to collapse because it is rotten, immoral and illegal. I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio. 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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• '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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