Good Picture Quotes
What separates a good picture from the rest
This page gathers quotes about what makes a good picture, from a painter always eager to start the next canvas to the incidental detail behind a good lie.
Drawing a good picture is like telling a really good lie - the key is in the incidental detail.
Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.
Arresting Quotes
A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.
A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.
A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.
I've certainly always had a very high regard for Botswana and so I paint a very good picture of the country and I've never pretended to be painting an entirely realistic picture.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What makes a good picture according to these quotes?
Is there a quote about a painter's ongoing drive?
Does a quote compare a good picture to storytelling?
Is there a quote about the darkroom process?
Does any quote separate good from good-looking?
Another line describes rushing straight to the darkroom to develop a great shot, and one insists a good picture always beats a merely good-looking one.
