Pretty Picture Quotes

• Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Exercise, Simple

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• Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.

  Albert Hadley

  Creating, Soul, Quality

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• If you really look at the aftermath of Iraq, Iran is going to be taking over Iraq. They've been doing it. And it's not a pretty picture.

  Donald Trump

  Iran, Iraq, Aftermath

  "Donald Trump’s interview at the Commander-in-Chief Forum". www.freerepublic.com. August 9, 2016.

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• That's the trouble with, I think, my - the contemporary read of my work. So many people just simply say, "These are pretty pictures of black boys." They're not really thinking about, like, what the whole thing is.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Boys, People

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• [Beaches] is a pretty picture and I just liked having somebody like Bette [Mudler] who can be flying in the big comedy scenes and have her do more like a realistic part.

  Garry Marshall

  Beach, Flying, Comedy

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The photo can optically replace its object to a certain degree. This takes on special meaning if the object cannot be preserved.

  Bernd Becher

  Special, Cameras, Degrees

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• Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

  David Hockney

  Beauty, Hate, Artist

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• Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

  Gemma Chan

  Acting, Cameras, Different

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• It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside who has more to offer the world than just a pretty picture.

  America Ferrera

  Triumph, World, Reassuring

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's emotional.

  Jason Shawn Alexander

  Emotional, Want, Reason

  "An Interview with Jason Shawn Alexander & Sloan Schaffer : No Good At Exits Stuns @ 101/Exhibit’s 2nd Location". Interview with Franceasca Seiden, laicreatives.com. April 17, 2014.

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• Fashion it's not just about learning how to draw pretty pictures, and how to sew, it's everything that makes up your life.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Draws

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• Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned to making pretty pictures. Dramatic clouds and sifting light can overwhelm more mundane information. Yet who can resist beautiful landscape pictures of one kind or another? Not I.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Beautiful, Reading, Skills

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• Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can't figure it out.

  Frederick Lenz

  Flower, Buddhism, Thinking

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• You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Art, Kissing, Media

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• I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Art, Stupid, Believe

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• The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.

  Michael Connelly

  Beautiful, Sunset, Home

  Michael Connelly (2012). “The Black Echo”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope.

  Jane Goodall

  Environment, Reason

  "Death of a close relative" by Jane Goodall, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2002.

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• I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures!

  Mark Rothko

  Thinking, Make You Think

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• The most common misperception is the word 'design'. People think of primarily pretty pictures or forms. They don't understand the depth to which design goes-not only in products, but in every aspect of our life. Whether it is the design of a program, a product or some form of communication, we are living in a world that's totally designed. Somebody made a decision about everything. And it was a design decision.

  Sam Farber

  Communication, Thinking, People

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• At the heart of the gay marriage argument is an untruth: unions of two men or women are not the same as unions of husband and wife. The law cannot make it so, it can only require us to paint pretty pictures to cover up deep truths embedded in human nature.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Husband, Heart, Gay

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• To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all works as a piece. And you feel that these actors are in this situation and the audience is not thrown by a pretty picture or by bad lighting.

  Roger Deakins

  Photography, Achievement, Actors

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• A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should seem to be waiting for the action to complete it; it should not hold definite significance in itself.

  G. Wilson Knight

  Waiting, Theatre, Looks

  G. Wilson Knight (2014). “Shakespearian Production”, p.69, Routledge

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• They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly lie after another, epicycles upon epicycles, and the fools care not. It is not enough, I tell you, to ask how the cosmos is designed. We must ask why.

  Robin Wasserman

  Life, Lying, Pages

  Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.325, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.

  Tom Clancy

  Bridges, Differences, People

  "O'Reilly Factor", www.freerepublic.com. September 21, 2001.

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• We see ourselves in other people’s eyes. It’s the nature of the human race; we are a species of reflection, hungry for it in every facet of our existence. Maybe that’s why vampires seem so monstrous to us—they cast no reflection. Parents, if they’re good ones, reflect the wonder of our existence and the success we can become. Friends, well chosen, show us pretty pictures of ourselves, and encourage us to grow into them. The Beast shows us the very worst in ourselves and makes us know it’s true .

  Karen Marie Moning

  Eye, Reflection, Race

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.601, Dell

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