#pictures

At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#asking #asking questions #call #comes #creating

I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#always #beginning #close #dialogue #done

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#memory #objects #only #pictures #please

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#give #hedgehog #just #mirror #out

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#books #called #children #few #first

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own. ↗

— Richard Avedon

#consider #human #i #i think #just

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead. ↗

— David Bailey

#always #because #dead #dead people #event

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. ↗

— David Bailey

#fashion #i #i tried #pictures #portraits

Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House. ↗

— Majel Barrett

#asking #guards #handed #here #house

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#admire #artists #been #blonde #blonde hair