8 Quotes Tagged: pictures

I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It was all I had in the way of a home. In it was everything that was mine, that had any association for me, any past, anything that took the place of a family. Not much: a few books, pictures, radio, chessmen, old letters, stuff like that. Nothing. Such as they were, they had all my memories.

On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence.

Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.

A picture neither saddening nor gladdening I fear; neither beautiful nor ugly.

I never read. I just look at pictures.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.