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A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. -- Charles Dudley Warner
If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released. -- Jack Nance
I know I didn't like that dress 'cause it didn't fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren't the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us. -- Jimmy Carl Black
It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one. -- Mary Ellen Mark
Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time. -- Wilson Mizner
It's a weird combination that makes a great picture. It's a complete mystery to me. -- Alec Soth
They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well. -- Frankie Avalon
It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all. -- Steve McCurry
It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me. -- Fay Godwin
Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures. -- Terry Richardson
Some have said that if you take a great picture in color and take away the color, you'll have a great black-and-white picture. But if you're shooting something about color and you take away the color, you'll have nothing. -- Jay Maisel
Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value. -- Rabindranath Tagore
I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me. -- Alan Ladd
I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture. -- David O. Russell
I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6. -- Loretta Young
It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture. -- Henry Ossawa Tanner
Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway. -- Alessandra Ambrosio
I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it. -- Sadie Jones
In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture. -- Ridley Scott
I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more. -- Jamie Zawinski
I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they're willing to give to the picture. -- Sam Raimi
The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then. -- Debbie Allen
For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness. -- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
I created this picture of this character who would play the guitar effortlessly, who had no limitations, performing beautiful music, and he moved around with great acrobatic skills, just capturing the audience and being a great entertainer. -- Steve Vai
There's a picture of Christopher and the real Ken Titus and myself in my dressing room. He's a great guy, by the way. I just think the real Ken is just super. And he's so happy for his son's success. -- Stacy Keach
My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was! -- Lynn Johnston
What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture. -- Neneh Cherry
A picture does a great job, but it's not nearly like being there. -- Neil Armstrong
Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card. -- Charles M. Schulz
I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me -- Alan Ladd
Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well. -- David Hockney
Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. -- Simon Baker
Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture. -- M. Night Shyamalan
Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you. -- Dan Hampton
In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon... -- Margaret Wise Brown
Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad? -- Frank Gehry
Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold. -- James Randolph Adams
Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture. -- Sophie Swetchine
For you to be able to take a picture of yourself that you feel good enough about to share with the world - I think that's a great thing. -- Ezra Koenig

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